Make-em-squeel:
what does...catch like a bulldog, mean?
Can you describe the differences in which your dogos have caught in comparisson to your bulldogs?
For me, the problem with some lines of dogos is that they don't feel the dogo should be as game as a bulldog. Therein lies the problem, and thats why people such as yourself feel that pits catch better than dogos.
As some others have said, the purpose of the dogo is to have one breed to do it all. The creators of this breed intended on breeding a dog capable of finding and catching Jabali weighing 200kilos'400+lbs'
How often do any of us come across a 400lber?
Many also forget the other main prey for the dogo, since we cannot hunt them as easily, but the dogo should be able to catch and subdue an adult mountain lion'puma'. I wish I had the opportunity. Saw some 'panther crossin' signs near our new home, maybe we will accidently find out?
Thanks for the gear reccomendations, I will be looking into them very soon.
What i meant by catching like a bulldog is that I use mine as a lead in cd and the ones i have culled in the past did not fit that bill/ they were hard hunting dogs and would catch anything under 200 lbs but would fight and bay a big bad boar, especially if they were tired. The one i have now is straight catch on anything and has great lungs when needed, that is what suites me, however i dont think the others were bad dogs but not typical for what the avg "american hog hunter" is raising a bulldog/mastiff for.
