After reading all of the posts about rough dogs over the years....maybe what I call a rough dog isn't what everyone else is calling a rough dog because the dog that I call rough (RED) has been on hundreds of hogs and he we gauge how big a hog is by whether or not Red is baying or quiet because he is caught. He always catches with the cd also. We got him three years ago as a pup. He has only been to the vet one time and that was to get a toe amputated because of an infection. On the other side of the spectrum is our loose baying dog (Foot) he doesnt have many scars and he will even bay a smaller hog. He doesn't always help catch, he is the one that will roll out if we tell him to.
I always read about rough dogs having lots of vet bills, so maybe ol Red isn't as rough as I thought.
