Pups and/or Prospects

BoarNinja, if she is 13 months old and doing that good I sure would keep feeding her.........

I don't really even start hunting my pups until they are about a year old usually. I don't want them wrecked by a bad boar hog at 6-8 months old as I have had that ruin a pup in the past. I usually start them in a controlled situation, such as releasing a sow or young boar and letting them hunt it. That way I pretty much know what they are going to get on and can control whats going to happen.

We turned Monkey and a 10 month old Monkey x JJ male pup (that isn't mine) out last Feb. Dogs were not out 10 minutes, Monkey bays, pup goes to him and its a 205 lb boar hog in palmettos and myrtles. Monkey tried to catch when the pup got there, got slung off, the pup didn't quite know what to do, wound up getting wrecked. Monkey was cut in one place, pup got a bunch of staples in 4 places...some cuts were 8"-9" long.....so I try to prevent this as much as possible on young dogs.

Most of my dogs will bay by themselves, but when you get there and crowd the hog, or turn another dog to them, they are going to catch.

Personally, I like the red dogs first, yellow dogs second, and everything else third....LOL