I understand all that DJ. What I am asking, is when your rough dogs get on a big hog, and he breaks, how do you know that the rough dogs "shut him down" and it wasnt just the hog deciding he wanted to stop and fight. I just always see people saying this and i wonder how they know that is acxtually what is taking place when 99% of the time no one is there when the hog stops to see what made him stop.
Ok I gottcha. The answer to that is, if a man owns loose baying dogs he will tell you that his loose baying dogs shut the hog down. and if a man owns rough dogs he will tell you that his rough dogs shut the hog down. Nobody knows for sure, it just sounds good and everybody likes to brag on their dogs no matter what kind they are. LOL
I personally dont think hogs are shut down unless if it is in open woods or open fields. If its thickets then either the hog decides to stop or not and the dogs catch up to it or it keeps running and the dogs play out.
