I read thru the post and never saw where the guy actually said how the dog catches. It just said he catches perfect in the pen.
Obviosly some thing is not perfect. Perfect according to who?
Just to throw a dart at the board here... I had a bulldog that hardly ever got cut. When it did it was because it was thick brush or some thing and the hog raked it against the brush. Any ways... what was so interesting about the dog is it would catch and line up parallel with the hog pulling back. I never saw it get on the front side. It was always moving WITH the hog... never trying to man handle it.
Its like being a line man in football. You don't want to necessarily man handle the defender and take them in the opposite direction. You move with them in the direction they want to go.
Same thing with the catch dogs. Some catch and kind of stay put. The hog eventually works around gets under them or gets them turned in front of them. That is when they get cut. The catch dogs have to move with the hog... especially if its only one.
This is just my theory from seeing different dogs over the years. It may or may not be the issue.
