EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Hey guys I got a young pack of dogs I bringin up got them to where they are findin pigs perrty good. But. Need advice on what I can do to help teach them to stop a runner. Went out this evening the found pigs at both spots I dropped them off stayed with the pigs for a long long time but never could get them shut down part of it was the dam weed.  In careless weeds tallerr then any man I know. Any and all help please I know ideal need an older dog but aint got one

Just part of the hunt. I got older dogs that can't even shut them down sometimes, especially in tall weeds. If they are after shoats its even worse.

 I hope it's just them damn careless weeds messin with there noses.  Cause they bay good in a pen.   Will get a littel rough

Join the club... if it were that easy there wouldn't be anymore hogs left! ;)

Rough, loose, young, old, 1 dog, 20 dogs... been there done that. Just hunt the way you enjoy to hunt and catch what you can.

Amen, just the perks of hogdoggin ;), I'm sure we've all had our share of runners and not bein able to get em' shut down..Mostly everytime I go we get burned by at least one, they usually will figure it out on there own or just get mad enough where once close enough they will just grab hold...

I agree with what everybody else said,,,

Just think about it,, that hog just runs and runs,,, them dogs gotta smell everywhere he went they cant just run and run

Yeah I guess your right. I was proud of the findin them and stayin gone but never bayin  up.  Was just anything I could throw in to my training

W-tate me and tjr89 are in the same boat as you, we have gone to the same place on three different occasions and got whooped by a runner 2 times for sure, one time we don't know what happened but the dogs were barking and then they just came back ???  I'm just glad everybody gets on runners I was begginning to think we just flat out sucked  ;D

The first spot we hit they took off.  Struck two. In the careless weeds u can barley walk threw and my three went one way my buddys  dog went on the other one they stayed on that one prolly a mile maybe a littel over I think they had it bayed a littel while but I lost my pistol in the damn weeds. Holster broke.  When I found them my cat  had some blood in his mouth. Second tine the flat out got smoked. It was thick but there strikin hogs I am proud and not trashin on deer cause we seen some. So cuss I should be postive

Yeah man both times I felt like we let the dogs down in not getting there fast enough, but it's hard when the hog is running them in a big circle around you!! Can't blame the dogs they did their job, just need a fast dog that will hang on his nuts til he turns around ;D

Wacey
 yall need to stop hording all the rain last time  i was there it looked like a jungle all around there,,its hard to stop those big bowling balls throw the thick weeds of anykinds carless bloodweed  or switch grass,,, not to mention brairs
 good luck
 Dexter

Wcg these hogs didn't run in no circles just haul butt away they will hit catus patch just causevthey know it slow the  dogs down some times

Dex I tell ya what weeds are bad this year I mean worse then I have ever seen careless weeds thick as the damn briars

that happened to me last night as well . went with a guy for the first time and could not shut one down to save my life. i had old dogs and a couple of 2 year old dogs that i have caught hogs all year with. it just one of those nights.

That happens to everybody sometimes,  just keep huntin them young dogs

Like everyone else has said, it happens. My father in law went hunting this weekend and had to go through 2 different hunting clubs to get our dogs back. The hog just would not stop.

One thing we do sometimes though is to run an older more experienced dog with your young group. That way they might pick up on what the older dog is doing. Some time it works and sometimes it dont.

Best of luck and keep on hunting.

We ran some in a tall patch of sudan a couple nights ago and every time they would get one stopped we would let them settle in on a bay and then send the catchdogs in and the hogs would break when they would get about ten yards from them that stuff was so thick when the bulldogs would plow through there all the noise kept making them break. We ran them round and round that dang field and never got one caught. We got our butts handed to us for the first time in a while. I guess I need to teach my catchdog to tippi toe so he can sneak up on them.

I think I gonna teach my dogs to run a shreder or weedeater