Message #200352

[Wmwendler]

Good read, thanks for posting up.  My Dad's rattler dog would do exactly like you decribed.  He would recognize when you got to the bay. Come out and greet you even bump you with his head like some dogs do when they are happy to see you.  Then he would go right back to the hog, most of the time he did this when he was bayed on a hog for a long time before you got there.  If the hog was hung up in some thick brush or matted vines, something that you could not see into and shoot the hog, he would wait unitill you arrived and let you get into position.  Then he would entice the hog to charge him and draw him out of the vines right to you so you could shoot him.  No Joke,  He knew how close to get to draw a hogs charge and knew just the right distance to stay back to keep one bayed.  I love dogs like that its almost like they recognize the partnership between you and them.  They are not just mindlessly barking at hogs.

Waylon