What I learned this wknd... I am very hard headed(as all my close friends will agree
), having said that, I thought I knew what I had going into this wknd. I knew I had three "solid" dogs, and I thought I knew best how to hunt them... I was WRONG
About halfway through the second night, it became obvious that Whaler and Sawfish had become a far measure better than their mother Shiner. The guys we were hunting with hunt to sell hogs and they figured out real quick which dogs produced lol... Whaler and Sawfish both have unbelievable drive/stamina, they just kept on going... and going... and going.
Even I was impressed as I had not had the opportunity to push them that hard before. It did feel very strange to leave what I thought was my "best" dog(Shiner) in the box, but the boys just move a track much faster than her, and get much rougher to stop one than she does. Was very eye opening.
... the next thing I learned
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I do not have the appropriate catch dog for the style of bay dogs I hunt. Many times during the hunt, one of my dogs would bay a hog up and I would want to send a second dog to them to provide more "distraction" so the CD could get an easier shot... I was told real quick, "no"
, "let's just go catch the hog"... sounded too simple, but it damn sure worked!!! They use a bulldog named Petie that is about 60#'s of whoop ass lol.. no vest, no cut collar, this sombitch just took the licks and kept on catchin' hogs. Very impressive. Having a smaller, faster CD like this would greatly improve my productivity. I have been working towards this with my Dogo cross breeding program... but I may have hit a dead end as the female I have been raising for the last yr and a half is not showing to be hard enough. I may be making a big change in this respect soon.
