Have any of you guys had a set of pits that caught on the same front leg every time?? I had 2 seemed like the white one was always on the left leg and the other pit was on the right for almost every hog we caught for a while, rattle snake killed the left leg dog down at the ranch going to a bayed hog, he crawled thru the brush tunnel and i heard him yelp a bit, he made it to the hog bay and caught, we stuck the hog and the noise died down, somebody coming from the truck said omg there is a rattler 30 feet from u in th emiddle of the tunnel, dog died as we were 60 miles from a vet, after a while i could see the bloodied fang marks on his white side, his name was ol spot, sure missed him for 30 years every time we drive to the ranch oak mott where he got it...... I was always worried when we got a nose catcher, like u guys says, they get that tusk right in the jugualr vein from hog slinging up and down if you got no catch dog help, seemed like ear latchers were about the same, i think the pits we had that lived th elongest were leg catchers but who know, it might just be luck of the tusk running out...
Id like to see some pics of those dogs on a hog... Ive only seen that happen once with 2 pits, and it wasnt very pretty...
The hog didnt have alot of size to it, but they still didnt seem to control it very well along with leaving the hogs head free to thrash...
Did you ever have those dogs catch a hog that was backed into a hole/brush?? I would be curious to know how they would go about catching it...
I dont remeber really, when i had this pack i was just starting out, had a german shepard/pit mix that was always fighting head to head with the hog while the pits were on the legs, also had a grade yellow town dog that was nutting bad boars at the same time if he was walking with the pits on his head, think they was a runnin walker/pitbull in this pack that caught anywhwere, had a yellow brindle and red blackmouth cur and yellow east texas cur in this pack, this pack stayed completed cut down that summer, had no dog power with all of them butchered up and dring them every day when i came home at lunch and supper with meds and water hose cleaning, this summer made me go to all curs that bayed as i was tired of vet bills and being cut down in middle of grain season, this was the early 80s when the hogs were really exploding down here from 4 countys plaining row to row corn and milo for years straight and it was raining regualrly, we were catching tame type pigs 50 50 with the blacker non tusked up ones at this time, lots of boars 200 pounds to 300 regularly, now days all i ever see at the ranch seems like are sows and tons of small boars, all black not much teeth and a sprinking of red spotted once in a while, I thought at one time the russian types were going to take over but they disapeared seems like and blackies took over, thats why we always wanted to get up 59 quite a bit to find some of those dog killas with teeth that ran like deers around powerhorn seadrift and north east refugio county by the refuge, they were 1/2 the size and 5 times the runner for sure but 3 times the teeth seemed like, i think somehow the dna got mixed up and created a superreproducer not really a better hog but one who outbred the wilder feral hogs and thus moved the older russian types out of the gene poll, least in my area, thats what i see, my freind has a hog plant close to me and he is older and remebers when lots of tusked hogs came in with color, its rare now down here to see 300 hog with teeth, i just dont get it really, there is so much less planted now here is not funny, they living off of bottom of what ever is left after this drought, they cant even second harvest cow scat down here right now as most of the cows have been shipped for a year or more, dryest year in my life of 60 years down here and more hogs than ever go figurelol
