starting dogs

I start exposing my dogs to hogs at around 6 weeks to get them used to the smell and sounds of hogs. Keep a small hog in a small pen. Every few weeks I walk them around the pen. When they get around 3 or 4 months old I'll bring an older dog to bay the hog and get the pups fired up. When they act like they want the hog bad enough and I feel they are old enough to handle it, I'll put them in the pen with a small easy hog. After they can handle the hog and build up confidence one on one, I put them in a 3 acre wooded pen. After they "find" the hog in the 3 acre pen they are ready to go hunting. 99% of the dogs I do this with look like really well started woods dogs their first time in the woods.