4 legged mules

Not to be rude or sound cranky but to be totally honest catchdogs for mounted hunting need to be able to follow you all day many miles and still have plenty of gas to catch a hog, it is hard enough to ride through those bad thickets without having to lead or carry a dog, my catchdogs follow me whether riding or on foot and stay with me while open trailing dogs are running then I go through a routine that I get off my mule catch my dog and lead him at least a few steps then send him. That routine helps him understand he can't go until that process is completed or he will get struck by lightning haha, they very soon learn the difference in trailing dogs and bayed dogs, when the dogs bay my dog really perks up but is not allowed to bark whine or scream and I may have to call his name a time or two on the way to the bay so he don't slip off, more so when just starting them. The beginning of their training was on a rope and teach them that come here is not optional. For me what a catchdog doesn't do is as or more important than what he does do. Fat comes from the feed can and lack of exercise.
I live in East Central Oklahoma near Muskogee. Clay Newcomb is a fine fellow but didn't know squat about breaking a mule and it took him forever and two days to begin riding that spotted mule, granted though he did get it done and she seems to have made a good hunting mule, there is more than one way to do things.