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
Waylon, do you have a picture of him and what kind of dog was he as well, I used to never try to tell anybody stuff like this because they would not beleive it, but i just did it myself, thanks for posting up, I had about 3 or 4 rat terriers that were the same way, one was great at finding dead hogs or coon or bobcat trees from the foxhounds who did not stay treed very long if the tree was really high. We also had thousands of javelinas at one time as well and they were horrible about getting in a tinhorn or cave or some kind of hollow tree and butchering dogs up really bad that you could not hear them due to being underground or in a log, the terriers would take us back to a log full of curs pit/cross's and 20 javilainsslol Good ole Days, thanks for your post up as well.
