What's your opinion

this is how I see it...a hunting dog is born so it won't stay long with me it is not on track to make a dog...good dogs will work in any terrain.

not that long ago a young man wrote on here that he thought he had good dogs until he got a good one and then he realized he didn't have good dogs...

a good dog will hunt day in and day out.

it is a good feeling when you know your dogs won't look bad against any other dog...but like has already been mentioned...we can always find something we would like to improve on...especially hog dogs on account hogs are hard to stop and catch in there turf or if they are dog smart...

we can look at the very rough dogs and they can really stop a hog...but won't have much of a nose or range...

or we can have a top notch strike dog that can really get out there and find, bay and stick with a hog but does not have the stopping power of a rough dog...just giving scenarios that can and do come up that are real issues with quite a few of us...

one thing about these free dogs that were given away to pet homes and are no longer wanted and then you pick them up for almost free...chances are these are dogs that the original owner did not like for a reason...we can get lucky now and then and get a good deal...

bite the bullet and get you an older gyp that really comes from outstanding stock and breed her to a good male from a long line of hunting dogs and raise some pups...you won't be disappointed...you can have an up and coming pack of dogs in one year to a year and a half...