Help Dog - the final plea

I have 2 litter mates. A male and a female. The female is small in stature but she makes up for it in grit and determination. The male is bigger stronger and faster. They are both close range dogs. The male will check back in more frequent than the female. The male has found his own hog but mostly it's the female doing the striking and he ends up right there with her at the bay. I've seen on a few occasions where the hog breaks bay and the male is right there to shut him down and get him bayed again. I guess you would consider
him a help dog but it works for me. We don't have a lot of hogs so I'm still evaluating him. Maybe if I try him by his self he would step right up. I guess it all goes back to the standards one has for his pack. I wouldn't want a yard full of help dogs but I don't have a problem with
one as long as he is contributing in some way.