Pen Dog? - June bremond bay

WAARHEID,

Last month we put our Lizzie dog in the pen at Bremond. I should have "scratched" her, as she did about as much baying as she did looking out, but I wanted to see how she handled the hog. She kept the hog "bayed" away from the fence, not backed up in a corner. Now she tried the hog a time or two, and he was more than she could control, so she backed off and held him at "bay". Lizzie did all I needed to see to know there is no reason to put her back in the bay pen. She shines in the woods. Uses enough pressure to hold them, but not too much pressure to make them run. She will try a hog, and if she can hold it, it's caught, if not, she backs up an bays...That's all I need in a dog in the woods. Now here is the part that was funny to me...I get her out of the pen and a guy comes up to me and says "I wouldn't hunt that dog in the woods without a Garmin, you will never know if she is bayed" I don't think he understands "pressure". When a dog looks out, it relieves pressure, when a dogs stops baying a few moments, it too relieves pressure. I would rather have a dog that understands that and doesn't do so well in a baypen contest, than a dog that bays six inches from the hogs face, and only holds the hog because it's backed into a corner.

I guess what I am trying to say is that you can have a great dog in the woods, that will not score worth a flip in the bay pen....Two different styles to me.