Your perfect bay

For me, the true test of a bay dog is not how he brings the hog to bay... but how he KEEPS the hog at bay until a catch dog can do what he does.

... some dogs can bay any hog... but try and send a catch dog to that hog and the hog eternally breaks and runs...

... some dogs require a running catch dog to be sent from afar... to do the stopping for them...

... then there are the bay dogs that sit a good hog down and keep him there... allowing even a pathetically slow catch dog to do his job... the quality of a bay dog can not be accurately gauged by any other means other than this in my opinion...