Just curious if anyone has ever hunted with, behind or raised a gsp that was to hyper and all it wanted to do was run? Crazy question right? I have gsp that shows interest in a pig will bay a pig in a pen and has been caught solo on a shoat once. Soon as her feet hit the ground she gone 1000 miles to nothing. I've raised this dog from a pup and I feel like by now she should know what's going on. She will make 2 in August and has been hunted at least once a week for about 8 months maybe less. My question is to cull or not cull?
A lot of folks have used bird dogs to hunt hogs with for years here and other continents, but one thing you have to consider is your asking a dog to hunt in a way that totally different from what they’re genetically hardwired to do, bird dogs have a genetic predisposition to naturally want to hunt birds and bird scent and point, not saying they don’t make hog dogs because there’s countless examples of bird dogs and their crosses making outstanding hog dogs, maybe yours prefers feathers over fur, they don’t want to naturally run an bay a piece of furry game, again some do with no problem, I was looking into getting and English pointer from my neighbor, he’s a full time and successful field trial competitor, and when I told him I wanted a pup to raise up around hog hunting he told me it didn’t matter what kinda exposure they got that if they didn’t naturally prefer fur then they probably wouldn’t make a hog dog, this is just my case with his family of dogs, that over the years he had sent bird dogs to his father in-law in GA that hog hunted and he did good with them, but it was always the ones that were trashy and rather run fur bearing game than birds, and most of the time those dogs were out of dogs that had to be broke from off game themselves, not saying this is the case but something to look into...
My Smutt dog had a littermate to him that was to high strung to hog hunt, they were tight bred on a big motor dog to begin with, but his brother got the most of the bad habits, he would just go and go and to some it would’ve seemed like he had a lot of hunt, but he didn’t have hunting and finding and baying a hog on his mind, he just wanted to run, he made a pretty good cow dog, he was a crypto orchid so I wasn’t good to breed to him anyways, he was was so wired he teeth would be literally chattering together in the dog box, and when you turned him loose he took off like he was shot out of a cannon, Smutt was always the one who fell bayed or would at least go to another dog barking and cover him, not all dogs are cut out to be hog dogs, only question that needs to be answered is how much your willing to put up with and for how long....
