Blackstreak- that was a lot of typing for nothing- I stopped reading after the first sentence. Yes, catch dogs catch. That is their job. Anything short of catching every time is a cull or it is not a catch dog.
Drifter- I hope your thread doesn't get hi-jacked but I have a feeling is will happen. Take it from me or Shotgun. If he aint catching everytime, get one that will. If not, you may just have a 1/2 catch dog and he aint worth feeding if you can depend on him. When I let mine go, I can follow him right to the bay because I am 100 % certain, if he makes it to the bay before the hogs break, he going to catch. That is why I feed him.
That post wasn't ment for you, it was ment for people of a little different character than you who also want more out of their dogs then what you settle for. The man asked a question and you answered it without knowing how old the dog was, what kind it was, and what if any was the common denominator when the dog didn't catch such as was he just not catching at a rally. Any of these 3 things could answere why the dog wouldn't catch now and then and the dog could be gotten over. You being so quick to call the dog a cull without asking even one of these things is before hand then turning around and belittling me for sharing info about the nature of catch dogs that most overlook is childish and insecure. I was trying to help the man find the potential problem and work with him to fix it if it was one of these. You sir just give the easy answere to a man that was looking for help and said he was kinda attached to his dog. I wrote that deal about catch dogs to share with others that catch dogs can be much more than you see them as. Looking at catch dogs the way you do, it's obvious why you couldn't help the man trouble shoot his problem till the possible avenues had been exhausted.
