Bay dogs vs. catchy dogs

A natural catching cur dog ( at least East Texas kind of BMC dogs ) on livestock didn’t live long in the Big thicket back in the day and still don’t among most sincere cur dog breeders and hunters who care about them and understands what a true cur dog is, suppose to be, how he is suppose to work, the correct style for the breed and characteristics that say he is a true cur dog, doing what he was bred to do from the get go. Same can be said for people raising cur dogs, hunting them and working livestock all over Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico. Catching was and is a fault that usually automatically carried the death penalty. It still isn’t tolerated today by ranchers, cowboys working cattle as well as the hog hunters and breeders who care about breeding, raising, hunting and keeping a true cur dog what he is and was bred to do
If I want a catch dog, or some catchy dogs or pack dogs, then it don’t matter, just what ever you will find that tickle ya fancy. Lots and lots of them around cheep.
To me, it’s about more than laying a pig or numbers of pigs on the ground and taking a tailgate shot. If that’s the object, I’d get a gun, some bait and hunt em that way.. To me success is more than that, it’s equally the dog work and a display of many years of breeding and a dog doing what he was bred to do, Like he was bred to do it, long before my time on earth.
But, to each his own and what ever makes him happy.
JMO