It's simple, If you could "train" any old dog to be a hogdog someone would already be doing it and capitalizing on all the money to be made. NOBODY is doin it..
Why in the world are yall not scooping up every dog you can get your hands on and training it to be a hogdog and selling it? Can someone please answer that?
I can train most animals to do what they shouldn't do... but with a hog dog, to TRAIN a hog dog, takes a MASSIVE amount of effort... even with superior genetics as you know.... couple that with the amount of property it takes to provide said "prospect" with sufficient opportunity...
.... a few thousand acres of unpressured, hog supporting land... that each dog can have access to year round...
Can anyone really put a price on that? Land, HOGS, make training possible... without it, you got nothin.
So, if someone wants to lease me out JP's back yard & pay me for my time... I'll make all the hog dogs out of whatever you want
Noah you are right it would take a massive amount of time to try and train a dog to do something that he just didn't want to do. It would In my opinion be a complete waste of your time to try and "train" a dog to hunt for a hog, Trail a hog, run a hog for hours , try to stop it given the chance and then to stand and bay the hog for sometimes hours.. I don't think you or anyone else can do it but not only that, why would you even try? Why would you spend the years it would take to do that when you could get a dog that was bred to do it and has the genetic makeup in him to WANT To do it?
Lets have a friendly wager and whoever wants in on it can ... I have a 2 year old dog thats been runnin loose in my yard for 2 years, He is bred pretty good, he is a half dennison dog that was born and raised here. He is a cull according to my standards.. The ONLY reason he is still alive is because my girl claimed him as her dog and I promised her I would not cull him..
I want to see you make a hogdog out of him and if you can I will get on here and say I was wrong and you will win the bet. I want you to train him to take a track, run for at least 2 hours silent and then bay the hog for at least 2 hours if need be.
How long do you need ?
