If a hog wants to run, it's gonna run no matter what you throw at it... period.
Amen to that! Since we started using the garmin tracker on the dogs we've noticed how the running hogs stick to certain trails. We hunt some thick, pine tree, green briar matted crap and it seems like if you can't get the hogs caught before they get on their trails, then you'll run one all night. Before they get on a trail a poodle could bay them up. After they get on the trail the dogs could bite off both back hams and the hog still would not stop. Sometimes a hog will run to the end of a trail, if the dogs are still after it, it'll do a 180 on the dogs and start the trail all over again. Our dogs have a hard time catching hogs in East Tx, but when we go to the open parts of Tx our dogs do really well because of the terrain difference.
*A solution to the problem may be to breed the run out of the hogs*
