Young dog ?

are you walking the dogs into the woods and stopping ? or are you one of them that walks so fast the dogs can't hardly keep up ? lol it may sound like a silly question , but I have been with a few I had to grab by the coller and say heal , sit and stay to [ the dog handler not the dog lol ] just go to the woods and sit down and get you a switch, and if the dog comes close enough to you switch it and say get out . but some dogs just mature more slowly I nearly put down my old slim dog several times while in the woods [ but I'm glad I didn't ] he was just a slow maturing dog but when his switch flipped it flipped hard . I normally wouldn't give a dog as long as him to make it , but he was the last male pup on my yard from my ol Boudreaux dog and my plot gyp and Boudreaux had passed on . I bred slim several times to different gyps as a three year old and all his pups are early starters . slim was 18 months when I considered him a hog dog . but I knew what was behind his breeding . I doubt seriously I would give a dog I didn't know his ancestry that long , but I would put a couple hogs into this dog before I made a decision . has the dog ever seen a wild hog in the woods ?