No problem bud. Stopping forward movement of cattle or hogs is there first instinct, however rough they have to get to accomplish that. Mine will work cows the same as hogs. This being said, there are very few places these days that I get to hunt, where hogs will actually stay together long enough to bunch. I have had them bunch and ring full sounders(sows, pigs, and shoats), same as they would cattle, as they should, but these days, on the places I hunt, this seldom happens, especially these Russian hogs here in these SE Tn mountains. A single hog is stopped from the front. Once stopped, I want them off and in the hogs face, tight, regardless of how big the hog is. We sold a lot of hogs back in the day, along with keeping our own pork. Chewed up hogs or cattle is a death sentence around here. They are to get rough on the "head" and no place else. This is what we breed for. Like any other line of dogs, there is a lot of culling to reach this desired trait. I can't keep as many dogs as I would like here in Tn. Not having grown dogs to run this dog I have now with, I've had to work him a little in a pen with a collar to get him to come off and bay, especially smaller hogs. Handle is a must with me and I won't tolerate a dog without one. This dog now will not put a mouth on a shoat or even think about touching a calf, as it should be. This comes natural in most of these dogs, but there is always exceptions. No different than most other well bred working lines of cur cowdogs. Ours are bred to be a little 'ranker" than others, there is no doubt about that. Having control of the "catch" in a cow bred curdog is priceless. Again, not for everyone and there are a lot of different styles that will work, but this is how we roll around and below Lake Okeechobee, which is where I am from
Hunt 'um up.
