Message #527650

[K-Bar]

Well I a not an expert by any means but I made a concious decision about 15 months ago or so to give up on the long range, go for miles and stay till you get there bay dogs. I know I'm going to get flamed for this but after the way the hogs here, and everywhere else I'm sure, have started running; I'm done with that crap. We've had dogs that would dang sure find pigs and run them to hell and back. Their ability and heart were beyond question. The question was, "do I want to trespass everytime I leave the house and know ahead of time I'm going to?" My answer was no.  i loved those dogs when we had ranches and miles we could run but the other 99% of the time I was a nervous wreck trying to get to them and not get in a jackpot with a landowner.
We went out of our way to do everything we could to make them back off and bay and it worked exactly the way we wanted it to. Then the trespassing laws got tough and serious. I was in a situation of either the runs get shorter or I quit.
My son and I bred a set of pups that we hoped would be rough/catchy and see if that helped our situation. It's still early in the test but so far we like it. I know that the chance of getting them hurt is a lot higher but it was either rougher dogs or quit. I don't want to quit, so here we go with a different plan. Hope it works out. Just my two cents.