Hounds vs Curs

In my opinim people judge hounds and curs on different standards. For example if a hound runs a 3 hr race it is average and if a cur runs a 3 hr race it is very good. A dog is a dog and anyone making excuses for them is lying to themselves. I want the best dog I can have be it hound cur or whatever. With that said you have to rate the qualities or characteristics that you desire in your dogs and find the breed or strain that posses the highest number of the top qualities you are looking for. I have been hog hunting for many years and when I started our hog population in my hunting area was very low. (It has since increased but still not the numbers of Florida or TX) I place alot of importance on nose and bottom. When I find a hog track I want to be able to catch that hog be it under the next bush or the next county. For me hounds are the only way to go. Are they for everybody, NO. Several people have posted accounts of going all night and listening to a dog boo hoo and never stopping a hog. I can alos give accounts of people putting curs on hog sighn and letting them hunt for 30+ minutes. Catching them up and putting my plotts out, them cold trailing, (sometimes for hours and miles) and baying hogs. Or even then sometimes hunting them together and getting on a bad running hog and the curs burn out after 2 or 3 hours and my plotts bay the hog around the 5hr mark. It has allways been funny to me how people will brag on a cur for running a hog silent for 3 or 4 hours and talk about the bottom they have and then cuss a hound for running 5 hours saying that if it wasn't for all the barking they would have stopped the hog by now. There is no secret recipe...If there is I will re-mortgage the house to buy it. I have seen really good dogs in all kinds. One thing I do know is that I like good dogs way to much to be proud. Come hunt with me for a while, and if your dogs out do mine consistantly....heck I'll try to but them. I want to switch brands tommarrow because that means that Ifeel like I have found something better than what I got. Until then I guess I will just keep hunting these barking, booing muts and hope somebodies cur dogs have chewed one up and left it for us to bay. I'll leave you with some insight. Good dogs are where you find them. If you have one enjoy it because they don't last forever. If you have a good solid dog be satisfied, those once in a lifetime dogs are just that...once in a lifetime...they are not mass produced or "bred for"....if you ever hunt with one you will know what I am talking about