I love a smart dog. I have always said a smart cur dog will bay you a lot of hogs. I like a smart bulldog also and have had the pleasure of owning and hunting with some my buddy's have owned that were as smart as they come in my opinion. They would listen like a kid, never have any problem with dog or human agression, sit back and be calm after they were broke off the hog and the hog was tied. And even ride the 4-wheeler right beside a caught hog and not act stupid. And yet I have never seen one of them quit a hog or bay. Once a bulldog bays he's no longer a catchdog to me.
It would be nice to be able to send your catchdog in to and ideal bay in the open everytime but it's just not possible. Noah I completely understand about busting the hog out and getting him in a better place to catch if that's what you wanna do. But around here you would only get to catch a hog about 1 out of a hundred trips because if you bust him out of the briar patch or thicket he's bayed in he's not gonna stop till he gets to the next one, if he ever stops again at all, which is highly unlikely most of the time. A lot of times you only get one shot at a hog and you better have a dog that you can depend on to catch when he gets there. I don't have a problem with how anybody wants to hunt or what they want to feed and if it works for you that's all that matters. It's just that around here you won't catch many hogs if you have a bulldog that bays or if you started busting hogs and waiting till he got to an ideal spot to send your catchdog. Trust me if it was I would never send another bulldog in to a briar patch or thicket or a deep creek.
And really I mean how smart could any dog be that will catch something that weighs 5 times more and has knives hanging out of it's mouth? Anything that will do that has got be pretty stupid .
