I have noticed many different crosses within hog dogs. I know this is a common practice, I was just wandering if the lab mixed in has made any difference in the dogs you hunt? I also have some concerns that some of these crosses are really a bad mix,ie sight hounds with sent hounds , or sight hounds with bull dogs. Kinda seems a bit off beat to me. Just wandering.
Just about any pit bull cross with anything will work, just about any good treeing or running walker to any sight hound will work, lots like to hunt pointers with bulldogs as well, sounds off until you get around the different areas people have to hunt and the tradition of dogs they have around there area, i think a lot of the extra souped up gaminess comes from the hybrid cross mixing up the hunting gene dna that might have been diluted down with some of the breeds that have gotten too popular and non performing dogs are getting sold and bred because somebody has a website and there own registry, labs love to hunt and make great hog dogs for some, lots use bird dogs and there crosses, depends on there area, some are blessed to hunt large areas, some have to hunt small tracks so want a dog that will both strike and catch, pit bull and running walker hound is one that comes to mind, you can breed a rat terrier to a running walker and get small dogs that trail strike and catch vs the terrier more being a sight dog with a hot nose, Beagle and pit bull dog is another great crossbred dog as well, used to be down here the Beagle and running walker was the dog to have for bobcats, i have fond memories of great hunting dogs of unknown breeding straight out of the local pound when u could drive by it a night and borrow a dog on death row to see if it would run hogs that night when we were cut down from bad boars, at one time down here nobody would hunt a cowdog/hogdog breed on ranch as they were to valabule and scarce so lots had javelina dogs made up from anything and everything that somebody dumped or gave away or accident, i remeber going with the hands by the dog pound and loading up 10 to 15 extra dogs in a old bumperpull stock trailer hitched to a 61 gmc 1/2 ton to add to the javilana pack that weekend that already had 20 dogs from the ranch in it, 35 dogs barking at a big pack of 30 javilinas was a great lound noise, especially when they were coming back down the brushcowtrail right at you with all of the blind javilinas poping there teeth chasing themlol You learn how to climb trees real quick and wait until the javs leave, back then they were like fleas down here and every pasture had hundreds in them eating pear year round, now they are pretty rare....
