I'll try to re-explain. If it doesn't come out right, than I'll just go to bed dream about deer season being over so that I can get back to hunting instead of flapping my jaws on this forum. I absolutely believe that hunt, gritt, nose, speed, color, hair texture, height, and weight, are genetic. When dogs are chosen carefully, these traits can be passed and in some cases strengthen or in some cases weakened. If a dog has a tremendous amount of hunt in it, the dog is likely to smell another hog track or work his way back to a pack and find another hog. I call this hunt! Some dogs have a lot of "hustle" they go run everywhere and check every bush, and if there is a hog around they are going to find it. So many different dogs have hunt and so many dogs have different varriations of speed, grit, nose, hunt, and hustle. Just like there are varriats of color, size and weight.
I don't think roll over is clearly defined enough to call it a trait/genetic make up. A dog does it or does not do it. Some do it once and never again and a reason they may do it could be wind or another hog real close by. Some dogs roll over once in a while and then they don't do it for a long period of time. If you consider the first traits I mentioned- nose, speed, grit, ect- the dogs that have it do it all the time. The dogs that don't do it, don't it because they don't have it.
I think rolling over is to lose of a term. I believe it is a term that hog hunters have phrased- but it is not genetic. If it was a gene, would a retriever that goes out again and again be a good roll over dog or would a duck/bird hunter call that hunt?
When I researched the gene, DNA, and other terms (which Im not trained in), I cannot put what we call roll over in one of those categories. It is not something that is talked about when we talk about things we breed for. We don't really talk about the term hustle either.
So, after all of this, I don't know that you can teach roll over , but I am not certain it is genetic. I think you can promote roll over by not allowing dogs to stay with a caught hog. You have to train them that the object is to find and bay, find and bay, find and bay. Once you have taught this, I think you could say a dog is trained to roll over or you could say a dog is trained not to stay at a caught hog.
So there it is, that's what I think, now my head hurts so I am going to finish watching the football game and wish I did not have to work tomorrow! Is it time to hog hunt yet?
?
