I do not like a dog that quits the track. My goal is to have dogs that stop the hog asap but not give up easily even if the hog gets in the middle of a thick and large briar patch...and if the hog is a runner in the thick stuff I want the dogs to trail him as long as needed to bring it to a bay. These type of dogs will worry us due to where the track leads them but I would rather worry about where the dogs are headed than to know that the dogs will give up after a mile... In my book those dogs are culls...How many times will these dogs start a track just to give up, and then start over on a new track???
If I were to run those type of dogs they would have to be rough enough to stop a hog no matter what...
x10... You answered my question but i was really asking Texas Hog Dog what his opioun was on it. I thought that's what he preferred for a dog to quit the track after so long if he couldn't get it stopped.
The way land is cut up so bad these days with 100 acres here and 1000 there i know it's hard for a man to have some of these dogs but i will call for permission. I'm not saying mine don't loose them, I'm saying it really ticks me off if i here a bark and then an hour later i see dogs working back and this year because of our drought ive seen more of it. I want them to produce prok on the other end no matter how long or far it takes. Not saying mine are superstars because Ive lost hogs this year so there far from that but yes, i'd like to work towards that.
