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Reuben I been doing hydro therapy, furazone and antibiotics and its looking better just has a small flap hanging down.  It’s actually that brindle male I got from you a while back

Ben,I didn't know it was you posting…hope your dog gets healed up quickly for you…

Spray CutHeal twice a day directly on cuts for a few weeks…antibiotics for the first 10-14 days and dog will heal up nicely as long as it's a muscle or skin wound…

That's a good one right there…

The light running vest…
Sometimes a gritty dog that has learned to watch itself through experience can still get in a bind…caught between a bank and the hog or in thick brush or too many dogs piling on…one of those scenarios could get the dog killed or crippled for life…the light vest is good protection…it minimizes these issues and the dog learns to respect a toothy hog because the hits hurt and the pokes are small but forceful…
Some rough dogs will eventually get reckless even with experience…

My experience is that those type of pups will need a light running vest…sounds like he is on his way to become a really good hog dog…

The early starters...its a pleasure to have one cast alone at 3 to 4 months of age…they don't know what they are hunting just yet, it's a natural calling because they are born to do it…those are going to be the good ones…
I’ve read it on here a few times where coyotes have killed a few pups and I think that was going to be a good hunting dog one day…just last week I was talking with someone who came by for a pup and he had lost one to a coyote just recently.

I do like a hunting dog that rolls out alone and I like it best when they all pack up once a dog strikes…but if   they hit a hot track on the way to pack up i’m ok if they take their own track…I don't care for it but that's what good dogs do…

I like casting the dogs and once gone listen for the strike and them driving as close as possible...it’s more a combination of casting and roading…the idea is to develop the all around strike dog…

Cast dogs that will take a colder track has a lot to do with the type of dogs we hunt…it also has a lot to do with how we hunt them as to how cold a track they will take or how they will cast and hunt…when I hunted quite a bit with folks that hunted the way I hunted my dogs, my worked colder tracks…it’s all about bringing out the best from our dogs when we hunt them and that is my main focus when hunting with them…

I have a friend that I’ve given excellent quality pups back when I hunted quite a bit and we hunted together at times…so I knew some of those dogs should hunt as good as mine…they were good hunting dogs but because of his style of hunting his dogs lacked a few qualities they should have been good at…

He doesn’t really pay much attention to the wind when casting nor his dogs for that matter…he drops his dogs and rolls out on the wheeler or ATV…they don’t cast as far unless it’s a smoking hot track because they are more worried about keeping up…they don’t pay much attention to hog scent in the wind unless it’s fairly strong….and won’t take a hot track…but my dogs would and because the breeding was close to the same they should work about the same…the difference wasn’t the dogs but the two different hunting styles of the dog owners which was and is way different from one another…like the total opposite…

A cold nosed dog that casts, winds, drifts and finds quickly is hard to beat in my opinion….this dog is a well balanced dog that will take a decent track and put a hog at the other end of it…

I prefer cast dogs that can take a decent track and warm it up….if moving along the dogs are circling or crisscrossing and checking in at about 15 minutes without slowing down as they pass through…they are hunting the wind currents for hog or hog track scent….drift on track looking for the hotter tracks and then go…

If not moving along the dogs will cast pretty far looking for hog so it is best to keep moving when we can…

I don’t care for a cold nosed dog that is not a good cast and find dog…a cold nosed dog that casts, winds, drifts and finds quickly is hard to beat in my opinion….

I agree 100%. I want it all in a dog but one think I won’t do is beg one to do its job. I suck at training dogs so it better come natural or they don’t eat my feed.  Once you own a good one to set the standard, you won’t feed much else. 

10-4 on that….

Sorry to hear it…I’ve been hog dogging for almost 45 years and in the last 2 years or so have seen two illnesses I haven’t heard of before…its cost me 3 good dogs…

IMO if a dog has a ton of hunt, if it can smell a track its going to go. The terrain might wear a dog out thats not used to it or make it more likely to get injured etc but I bet it would still hunt.


I forgot his name but the ole boy that used to post tons of toothy hog pics was in real rough terrain, he always shot over the bay bc he said a lead in cd like most of us use wouldnt make it 3 hunts out there and I believe him, hilly, rocky, and every hog out there was toothy.

That would be Jesse Paul…in his part of the country he didn’t like to use any kind of vest on a dog on account the type of vegetation in his area is bad about hanging up the vests…that was before Garmin tracking but I suspect he still feels the same about the vests…no doubt about it he catches lots of toothy boars…

I also agree with what you said about a good dog…a good to great hunting dog can hold his own most anywhere if given the chance to acclimate…size can be an issue depending on the type of terrain…

There for a while I thought fish antibiotics were exempt from being made illegal for selling without a veterinary prescription…looks like they are being targeted and they could possibly be shut down…government is slowly taking control and our freedom is in jeopardy as we know it…

Excellent post Birdslayer86…

The problem I perceive happening in breeding better hunting dogs are several…

Some folks have different standards as to what a good to great hunting dog is and breed accordingly…and that is why there are so much inconsistencies when breeding hunting dogs…

Someone buys a pup with a few grand champions in the pedigree and pay lots of money for the pup…the pup doesn't make a dog worthy of breeding but gets bred anyway to recover some of their losses…

It's not easy finding a top-hunting bloodline that hunts as we like or with the consistency that we like…

And it is getting harder to find big enough places to hunt and train…this in itself is a challenge in proving dog performance for many hog doggers...

Good hunt T-dog…as usual your dogs performed well and sounds like that pup is on its way to making a good hog dog…

Excellent story telling and good hog…I could see the dogs working in my minds eye…

Sounds like excellent dog work…losing those dogs is a bummer, sorry for your losses…
I’ve lost 3 in the last year or so…one from a small puncture wound where a rare type bacterial entered, another from an even rarer bacterial infection and the catch dog from what I believe a twisted gut…the two strike dogs were boar stopping-catchers when working together…

IK think a lot of today's walker dogs are hotter-nosed on account of competition hunting...hotter nosed dogs get on hotter tracks and that is man-made evolution and not mother nature at work...

I've had a Kemmer Mt Cur gyp wind hogs where the walker acted like he didn't smell hog... the same with working out tracks...

But there are many good walkers out there...