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Logan, it depends, most my dogs are pretty close and rough, however they are smart enough to know to back off if they are getting bounced around alot, I have come into sight of a bay and seen mine baying 2 feet off the nose of hog trying to get a hog to charge em, and then we have walked up to 15-20 hogs bayed with my dogs back about 15 feet circling the group. The dogs are the only ones that know what is happening in their minds, as to what they can accomplish and what they can't.
That is why you will find that most folks on here that have been at it awhile, stick with what works for them, you get used to, and learn what ceratin dogs will and won't do and some folk are more compatible with certain dogs.