Bringing up a Dogo?

dub,

I like to carry mine around with me every where I go when I can. Well socialized with lots of contact with the outside world and people. Then I want them to shed their baby teeth in a hogs ear. I believe you need to set that in their brain at an age where they still have their baby teeth. While they are growing and setting their adult teeth I like to work on handle and running with the pack.

I have had good luck exercising a Dogo pup, 2-3 times a week, with my older dogs during the day where there is no chance of running on to any pigs. I want to let the pup learn to be a member of the pack, hunt with the pack just like a cur dog.

At 9 months I will send them behind a finished dog. When they are holding well I will break of the finished dog and let them hold the hog by themselves untill they are just about spent. That's where they can learn holding style.

By 12 months they should be able to handle about anything as part of a two dog catch team. That's a good time to start sending from long range and letting them run with the curs.

That's just what has worked for me.

Thanks,
Paul T