Goose when a young pit pup at 6 months old catches a 100 pound pig today and tomorrow you send that pup to a 250 pound dog savy boar and he strip the pups confedence away because of the beating he put on that pup, will you see the pup as a cull if it then goes to barking at that pig like the other dogs are?
First off I wouldn't be catching with a 6 month old dog, yes maybe playing around in a pen at the house, and dang sure wouldn't put him on something he wasn't equally matched with at that age, and to answer your question about the culling, here's my outlook on it, if and when I feel he's ready to haul to the woods, if from that moment on that dog even so much as thinks twice about not catching, then like I said before, he will not take another breathe, there's a difference in going out with his boots on and just plain out getting whipped of its job, I've seen some Bulldogs do some amazing things and display the true heart of a warrior, I'm not going to go into detail about how, when, or where because that's irrelevant. Everybody has their own ideas and goals for their dogs.
Good deal. In bulldogs you can have standerds like that and the average young bulldog fulfill these standerds of progression. However certain things can keep the first timer from performing as you so desire. Once the young bulldog has it down then such standerds are usually easy for the bulldog to fulfill.
Other breeds of catch dogs take more understanding and patience to develop but once they are fully developed and hard can easily outperform most bulldogs when hunted the way I do. It's all a matter of understanding breeds and knowing what you can expect while they are developing in order to see such dogs through. The end result in my standerds for a catch dog far exceeds that of yours but in order to get a catch dog to do the things I demand, takes work on my part as well as patience and understanding and persistence. Knowing what I do about the different breeds and crosses there of catch dogs, I knew to ask how old the dog was and what breed it was before I told the man his dog was a cull. I didn't know it was a 3 year old pit before I asked. A pit should be performing it's lead in duties by the time it's a year old. Makes a difference as to what breed and how fast you can expect it to progress till it is catching and holding big boars 1 out.
