i read on them one time the boxer and the great dane are the only 2 dogs that were bred strictly for hog hunting !
Come on people, not disagreeing for the sake of it. The boxer was the German Bullenbeiser. That meant bull biter as in bull baiting. Thats a different sport than hunting hogs.
Actually the boxer was around during the era of the bullenbiesser, but the boxers then were all white. they had some health issues that breeders attempted to breed out of them by breeding into the stock with the always brindle bullenbiesser. The bullenbiesser was also bred into great danes, the heredity of wich can be seen in both with there broad chest muzzle and fawn and brindle coats, passed down form the bullenbiesser. 99% of boxers and German mastiffs (what i prefer to call my great dane) instinctively hunt track and catch pigs. That doesnt mean all of them will or wouldn't do better with training, however the danes and boxers tendency to use there paws to tip and hold down prey is a deliberately bred instinct to pin a wild pig while maintaining a proper hold with there mouth.
another tidbit of information : the bullenbiesser breed was divided into two major bred groups known as bullenbiesser and barenbiesser. bull biter and bear biter, but this simply refer to the blood sports these medium mastiffs were used for, however they were primarily used as hunting dogs for boar wild bull and bear. so... they were used for exactly the same thing, and besides there coloration are remarked to be almost exactly like the dogo argintino.
