Dogo Breeding and culling

Reuben,
Either I worded myself wrong, or you misunderstood. Either way no big deal. I would never intend to imply that the dogo is only bred to kill its prey. However, if you cannot find your dogo caught, they SHOULD be able to kill the prey. Whether that prey be a wild boar or a puma. 3-5 dogos should be able to work like a pack of lions and kill their prey.

What may have lead you to believe that I want the dogo to kill the boar, is when I state that I am not content with a dogo who just hangs on forever. A dogo should be wanting to fight its prey. They are bred to fight with Jabali and Puma. They are a "catch dog" in some senses of the word, but like others have compared them to a gritty cur, that may be half of the equation. Dogos are intended to be the complete big game hunting dog.

You are on the right track on trying to figure me out as far as my breedings, but where you steer in the wrong direction is that I am not for a conformation OR a hunting dogo without its other half. I am ONLY for the Complete Dogo. A dogo that both looks the part, and does its original job. I have gotten to a point in my breeding program where I am not willing to sacrifce either aspect of the Dogo Argentino. There are already too many Show only breeders, and there are plenty of Hunt only breeders. I am neither and in some respects I am both. I show my dogos, but I don't waste a heck of alot of time on the opinions of judges who have seen a few dogos in the show ring. I hunt my dogos, but not to the point of hunting for 3+ hogs a night. When I go out, sometimes I come up empty just like anyone else. But on the nights when we catch one hog and all of the dogs are there and safe, I call it a night. I don't need to run them out of gas, bring them to deaths doorstep and then bring'em back. I am only out there to let them be the true dogo that they are. I heard stories from south american hunts, that lasted days, where they were trailing one big nasty boar for 10+miles. I will never be on a hunt like that, so that may be the sacrifice my program will make. That they will only be worked on small 1000+ acres properties that I get permission for.

I very rarely run one dog. The only times I have been out with one dogo is when I have gone hunting with others and brought a dog of mine along. Typically 2-4 dogos at a time. As I have said before(maybe in a different post) My dogos typically catch on the face/snout/head of the boar. And the time may come, but I have yet to see a boar that could do much with 300lbs of dogo latched to its head.

As for finding a silent dogo caught 100+ yards away. Will be getting a Garmin very soon. As of yet, I have been lucky enough for them to be so painfully intense that the boars are ALWAYS screaming. I know there will come a time where this will not be the case, but as I said, as of right now, it has worked out.

Haven't been running vests, due to the heat just collars. But I am looking into one of these chest plates, just can't find the ones I had seen before. When I recently looked up the plates, the looked almost the same as a shorty vest and are a bit more costly.

Paul,

You are probably right, that when I have been on hundreds of hogs, there will be things I want to have different about my dogs. But as of right now, as I have said on Dogo Boards...I am only interested in hunting the Dogo in the tradtional style that they were bred for since I don't hunt just for fun(well, I have fun running dogs) I hunt for the dogs to have fun. So from what I can see, I am not sacrificing much. If you see something related to the tradition creole hunting style, that I am missing, I am always willing to listen and learn. I didn't plan on someone elses topics ending up paying more attention to the way I hunt my dogos, Sorry Joe.