young dog, wide open on track

[TX HOG]

i have a gyp around 18 months old. she has been hunted about 15-20 times and caught about 10 hogs with her and at least chased hogs the other times. she has the best speed, agility, stamina, nose, bottom ive seen but she is wide open barking on a track. she barks before she sees a hog. this is barking, not yipping. she will let out a bark or a series of barks every 20 seconds or so, sometimes more often, sometimes less often. ****** will she grow out of this?   ***** people with first hand experience only please *****

[YELLOWBLACKMASK]

Good luck with shutting her up all the way bro. Try running her with completly silent dogs and when she gets a little age she might shut up a bit. Another experiement is to keep her in a pen with a bark collar and only take it off when you bay her in pen or woods. Neither of these is a sure thing just a couple of things that i have seen work in past for some dogs. Other than that you will have to sell her or breed it out if you can't stand the yip. Happy hunting

[dub]

I am not sure how you know she ain't looking at hog. But I think my gyp started that way. I wanted to see so I put her in a wooded pen so tracks would be everywhere. I think she barked when hitting a hot track. So I kept taking her back. That way it would increase the learning curve. She quickly found that if she barked too soon they ran more. Now she runs up and does a yip nip thing to stop the pig. I think that because of working in a wooded pen. They are great because you can see what is really going on. There are no dry runs either. You can go in work a while, pull out for a break and go right back to it. My gyp bays so the pigs can be used until it is BBQ time I do not have a wooded pen but find someone that does and bring corn and or pigs. It is well worth the time and effort.

[TX HOG]

Dub. I saw hog cross a pipeline and she didn't cross for 2-3 minutes. Another time i was her smell tracks on the side of a road

[dub]

That is what I thought. The wooded pen worked for my gyp but it took time.

[jsh]

We run open mouth dogs.  Based on my experience, I've seen them start quiet and eventually open - but never seen them start open and then go silent.

[BIG BEN]

We run open mouth dogs.  Based on my experience, I've seen them start quiet and eventually open - but never seen them start open and then go silent.

X2 on that, I got a cat/plott from Bosshog, she was silent until looking at a hog when I got her. She was like that the first 6 months I had her and huntin her with open plotts ruined her being silent. Now she is semiopen in hot sign.

[scdogman]

No ones knows for sure, but you haven't given alot of info.  Is this a hound  or cur or hound/cur cross.  Does she come from a line of open dogs?  The only thing you can do is run him with silent dog until he gets silent or you can't live with it anymore.

Dogs do start open and quiet down.  Not all but some do.  I think it's a learned trait if they are natural open(bred to be open).   There was a big discussion on this on the plott board awhile back.  Some dogs learn they can catch game quicker by being silent.   Example, open coon dogs goes silent. Learns that he can catch coons on the ground or tree quicker by being silent. 

I have seen a once top notch dog(coldest nose cur ever hunted with-RIP TAZZ) that was open go silent after he lost a step.  He always wanted to get by himself before the younger faster dogs would burn up the track.   Dog went from open all the the time to trail trail trail bayed.

[tnhillbilly]

X 2  I had a few do the same thing. They started out open mouthed, but are mostly 90% silent until looking at one.  sometimes open when a hog breaks, but dead silent when trailing.

Never had one start silent and start to open then go back silent tho.

No way to tell for sure, some quite down some dont, only time will tell.

[TX HOG]

She's a cur dog