How did you decide on the dogs you hunt

Just like you man I grew up in poor country.. We made a trip to town once every two weeks to get groceries and that was it.. I was raised mostly by my grandfather and he had his own cur dogs that he would use to mark his hogs and raise them in the woods. The question was soon answered though that those hog dogs would not be suitable for the ever changing hogs that we hunt today. I had never heard of a Russian blooded hog when I was little. And open woods was the norm back then ,, where a man could take two dogs and bay a whole sounder ,,, LOL.. Now its every hog for its self around my neck of the woods..
Hunting cur dogs then when I was young and could really walk the hogs up and place the dogs on their backs was easy.. Well I soon found out that I wasnt gonna stay young forever and I wanted my son to have a adequate style of dogs to adapt to the hogs we hunt now all over Louisiana.. A buddy of mine come up to hunt with me one morning with two young dogs (one was 11 months old and the other was 9 months old). I had drove them to a corn pile with a camera that let me know that the hogs had been there at 2:30 that morning. He turned them two young plotts out and I thought they wouldve never been able to work that track out in that clear cut and surely not put a hog at the end of it.. LOL.. Boy did my eyes open up on what hog dogs could be at such a young age... They didnt bark much on track at all and cold trailed them hogs off of my lease on the NWR and fell bayed after they ran a boar hog for over 2 miles and never quit or loss the track .. I was simply amazed at how they had the bottom that I wouldnt see in a 6 yr old cur dog or the abiltity for that matter. After we were done with the hunt,, I knew I had to somehow dig deep in my pockets to offer him something that was gonna hurt the pocket book but put my son in a position to not have to struggle to do the sport he loved so much .. And it was worth it.. Money is made to be spent .. and I was blessed to have the opportunity to give my son a connection that will last for his lifetime and hopefully his kids..