What do you expect out of your dogs?

Well where i live and hunt( Florida) we don't really have any wide open areas and we have thick palmettos and lots of swamps. with that comes water. Down here you will catch more hogs with dogs that are short range, Quiet and rough. ( Fact) Any dog that can't stop one in a decent amount of time will lose that hog anyway because i don't know many dogs that can track thru water.. I want my dog to have enough sence that when he can't pick that scent up after they get smoked to start looking for another hog and they usually will check back in and see where i am at because we walk hunt mostly due to the terrain...Different style. I think that comes from running rough dogs and they get use to you being their for help and walking.. I don't need 5,6 or more dogs on the ground. 2 to 4 max and that is usually because 1 is a young inexperienced dog. I have watched people try and run hounds and long range dogs down here and they catch hogs once in a while. They also spend all night and day chasing their dogs. dogs that are now back tracking old tracks they just ran but got smoked on because they lost them in a swamp to begin with. I don't call theses dogs giving up, Giving up is when a hog is whooping their aZZ and they come out. That is a quitter! With a short range gritty dog comes a nose that is not as cold. That is why they hunt the way they do. Maybe in Texas a long range dog that will take a 3 hr old track is great and needed, But i bet if you were to bring some of those long range cold nosed dogs down here they would not know how to handle the terrain as well hunting at night and you would get very frustrated fast. Seen it more than once.. My dogs won't quit a hog if they can see him and can smell him so i don't see that as giving up. Just like the campbells when they went to louisiana, those dogs and they were like fish out of water. " Not saying they have the best dogs but they work" The same might happen with a dog from Florida being hunted in Texas. Does that make it a bad dog? No. But i do think i could go anyplace and if their was a hog with in 300 or so yards from my dogs they could stand as good a chance stopping it as any.