I sincerely agree with both sides of this issue. First the keep the breeds pure side: I understand why this is done and agree with it, focus on the traits your after and stay with your line dogs. But if I have curs and I want a pack of rcds that are not straight pit I am going to breed my grittiest cur to the most athletic cd I can find. I will breed my own dogs because the best dogs I have owned I bred and raised myself and in the long run it's cheaper. The last time I did this I got just what I wanted. Some people will say this is luck but it's not it called hybrid vigor (f-1 cross).
Other people will say don't run rcds you just need better curs. I love to bay up the hog and then send in the cd and for most hogs that works great. But on the hogs that want stop for hell or high water the only way to stop them is with rcds. Some people will say that there dogs will say with the running hog until they are stopped and if the hog tries to run they will chew his rear off and they may do this on some hogs but not all of them. That's when you bring in the rcds. If you have good stock they are going to produce good stock even if it's a cross. I'm not afraid of crossing curs and pits it has work well for me in the past and I know it will continue to work for me. That's not to say I want continue to breed pure ybmcs and pur pits. I am making this cross for a particular reason to catch running boar hogs that refuse to stop.
This is a good response, and I can understand fully your reasoning. I know of another hunter here who has a similar situation and does the same thing. This leads me to think that mabe there isn’t a solid pure bred RCD out there? Dogos are supposed to perform like that, my guess is they aren’t working out as a whole.
Thing is that hogs are gonna react whichever way, run or fight. Trying to change the dogs around to meet these different responses will have one chasing their tail forever. A person decides on one path for a certain behavior then the hogs get conditioned to behaving differently now one has to adjust breeding other stuff in to try and meet that.
Hogs are smart, so one has to outsmart them. How about adjusting the tactics rather than constantly crossbreeding?
One way I heard of people baiting them in around the trail cam so they get conditioned to the camera flash then spot lighting them and cut the dogs loose. This method is working so well they are catchin too many hogs and their dogs are getting cut down and killed. The hogs are pure or nearly pure eurasions too. This way one can have a pure bloodline of working dogs, both bay and catch dogs and the benefits of maintaining dogs that way.
Just a suggestion that came from hog hunters.
