Hog dogs on bears

I cant speak for cougar but for bear, you'll need the grittiest dogs you have to make a real boar bear tree. If not, he may walk on you all day long and you'll never get him treed or bayed solid. In the bear world, I think most hard hunters say, "the good dogs don't live long". The good gritty dogs that will put a bear in the tree for you are the same ones that fight a mean bear on the ground. Bears do a lot of internal damage with hard swipes and punches. Lots of broken bones, joints, and backs on dogs.

I took eight dogs up; four came back cut up good. But, like hog hunting, they healed up and we going back at the hogs this weekend. I would say my dogs have good grit; not too much, but they will fight a bear and they will grab ahold of a hog no matter what size. I have one that is a straight running catch dog. Very open on trail but when face to face with a hog, he catches. Everything else will catch with him or with other dogs.