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LH...

years ago I made the mistake of training the best dog I have ever owned by teaching him to bay and catch shoats...the first big boar he met in the woods almost killed him...he stopped and fought him three times before he was cut down for a while...
My idea at the time was to give total confidence in the pups...that was a big mistake on my part...

IMO training pups on shoats is the way to go...if they start catching out then put a bigger shoat that can teach them some respect but we want to keep the pups in the game...once they are big enough a bigger boar is ok...but we would cut out the bottom tusks on the boars on account we were training and did not need an accident to happen to one of our young dogs...a couple of good whacks from a boar will teach a young bay dog to defend against that...