What are your dogs missing?

Cajun you are exactly right. It is extremely hard to get everything in one dog. Too much or too little is most definitely relevant to the situation. Outlaws daddy was too gritty. He wasn’t what I would call catchy in the sense of trying every hog, but he bayed pretty tight and he had no reverse. If they rushed him he just got ahold. It got him cut a lot because it was usually in real tight spaces that weren’t in his favor. Outlaw is a lot better about how much pressure and when, the stock sense thing in my opinion. I have seen hogs break bay when they saw us or heard the catch dog coming. Just like the hog dropping its head and busting through, Outlaw is doing the same trying to catch up. Me and Deputy Dawg saw him come out of if a briar thicket one day. He was coming so hard that was literally dividing out to grab her. We laughed because he was laid out with his mouth open and teeth popping trying to get ahold. She made it about 3-4 yards back into the briars. That’s the run to catch version I like.

I hear lots of people use the game dog breeding when they are talking about breeding too tight with line breeding and inbreeding. I know this is a different subject, I don’t think that’s comparing apples to
apples. The game dogs as a whole, are not bred for as many traits as the hog dogs and even bear dogs. I know in my dogs there are lots of boxes they have to check to get used. Again, it’s hard to get all the traits in one dog, but it’s my goal to get as many as possible in every dog I have.

I really think track speed stops a LOT of hogs. I also think a hog that really wants to leave is going to and that’s where track speed come in again. So that’s been one of my biggest focuses. But now I gotta be able to convince the indecisive ones to stay put once they get winded.

Cajun the male I bred the 1/2 plott to was heavier back to the lab/border collie side.

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