Ive been seeing topics about dogs that can shut down a runner, rough and loose dogs, dogs with bottom and it got me to thinking about our dogs....
I have noticed that they are better at shutting hogs down on years that we hunt the crap out of them. Some years we hunt less because of work, weather, and other various reasons and when we hunt them less, it seems we have more unstoppable runners.
So how many of yall think that maybe it isn't more or less runners but rather what kind of shape your dogs are in. IMO the more we work our dogs the better they are and the more they sit at the house the more hogs get away.
They have more bottom when they are in shape and just seem to be able to out wit the hogs. I know that I myself have less drive after sitting on the couch too much. But because of this thing called life, sometimes we arent' always able to hunt the dogs as much as we would like to.
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