I totally agree Mike.!!!! Being a novice and not understanding how genetics played a role when I began hunting about about 6 years ago, it was all about color and looks for me. Blue eyed cats and pretty color!! I felt that with enough time and experience you could train them to be hog dogs. Well I'll tell you right now my first 3 catahoulas were culls do to their genetic lacking. We used to hunt even more than we do now and I put those dogs on 100's and 100's of hogs with big E's and other peoples fiinished dogs. All they ever amounted to were good bay or help dogs..
Fast Forward 5 years: I have now immersed myself into a proven bloodline and have pups that are finding hogs under a year old, 9 month old pups that will run a track for 2 hours with the old dogs. Ive found the hard way that genetics play a superior roll in the make up of hog dog. Plain and simple...
Dont get me wrong though, I believe that LOTS of hogs and "training" can make a dog better.. but only if the genetic make up and want to are bred into that dog
X2... Btw all the pups died.. HEAT got em i tried everything
