Where you started to where you are now

[Purebreedcolt]

Been doing lots of thinking lately and looking where I started to where I am at now with dogs and can say I am well pleased.   First hog dogs were lacy lacy crosses heck of bay and shoot dogs then to bay and lead ins. Found lots of hogs didnt catch many in the grand scheme of things mayby 10 percent of found hogs to now if I get on hogs I have a caught hog.  Rcds. Kinda funny I seen the light fir me but took a buddy of mine giveing me a good catchy dog for me to see the potential for me.  Whats is some of yalls reader digest versions

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[hillbilly]

I went just opposite of u I went from catchy dogs to looser baying dogs. I just enjoy these type of dogs better is all. We use to run lots of dogs at once to now at the most 4. I can saY I am pleased but always looking for the next super star.

[Purebreedcolt]

Hillbilly think most of us are are always looking for a super star. Seems the longer time goes by the more content I get mayne it is better dogs idk

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[Bo Pugh]

I started out with dogs that were given to me at the age if 15 -16 and they wasn't hog dogs haha they was any dog that someone would give me id load them up and take them. I had a buddy that did the same thing we didn't have a dog that would run a track much less hunt but if they ran up on one we'd hope they caught it quick cause 100 yards they were coming back but we didn't have money to buy a dog then and we'd get up every sat and sun morning and go hunting knowing we weren't going to catch a hog. And went some evenings after school but we liked trying. It took me about ten years or so to get what I liked in a dog I had some good ones in between but not what I wanted. Now I have the dogs I have always wanted and am really glad I didnt have them when i was a kid or I probably would have been in all kind of trouble.

[Peachcreek]

I went from loving spotted dogs to loving dogs that hunted and bayed hogs. I started out believing i could take a good built catahoula and "train" it to be a hog dog. Boy did i waste some time and money... now i hunt dogs that may not look as pretty as the catahoulas but need no training. I still dont have it all figured out but i am getting there. One thing i have learned is a good dog is in the eye of its owner. I am sure some of my favorites might be culls to others, hunt what makes you happy and screw what other people think about them.

[justincorbell]

I went from loving spotted dogs to loving dogs that hunted and bayed hogs. I started out believing i could take a good built catahoula and "train" it to be a hog dog. Boy did i waste some time and money... now i hunt dogs that may not look as pretty as the catahoulas but need no training. I still dont have it all figured out but i am getting there. One thing i have learned is a good dog is in the eye of its owner. I am sure some of my favorites might be culls to others, hunt what makes you happy and screw what other people think about them.

Travis, couldn't have said it any better myself. Very well put Sir.


I started with a rag tag group of whatever the hell I could get my hands on, culled ALOTTA dogs early on tryin to make chicken salad outta chicken chit.......... finally got my hands on a couple decent dogs, that just made the itch that much worse, I guess 2-3 or so years after I started I managed to get my hands on what I considered a hogdog, a walker dog named amos, lost him to damn snakes. I got my hands on a few decent dogs here and there until I managed to get a couple out of the line I have now and i've never looked back. When I started there were as many breeds/shapes/sizes/colors of dog in my yard as there are days in the year, now days I have 12 dogs, 8 of which are from the same line (a line that I THOROUGHLY enjoy hunting with) with another litter out of these on the way, 2 are bulldogs, 1 is a brindle curr from the Psenciks out of dayton and one is my little girls jack russell..........Like Travis, I don't feel that I am "there" or have it all figured out yet but I sure feel like im headin in the right direction and I reckon thats all that matters.

[Shotgun wg]

Started with throw away dogs. Now I have world champion dillo dogs that trash on hogs. One of these days I hope to progress to hog dogs that trash on dillo's then to real hog dogs.


Shotgun
Arkansas

[Judge peel]

Seems to me most every one just makes circles in what they like or to the land they hunt i am with you peachcreek

[Amokabs]

Man, this is a philosophy course on hogdoggin. Excellent posts. I'm just a hobby hogdogger, but my lil pack is starting to pick up the pace and i have a buddy now with good rough dogs for them to run with and so far, they have worked good together. Hipefully, this time next year, they'll have enough experience under their belt that they'll be a presentable lil bunch

[LTcaughthog]

My dogs used too bay and catch cows. Now they'll bay and catch hogs and run from cows haha change for the better !

[mtarrant23]

I started off a out 11 years ago with deaf cat and a sure enough bulldog. I hunted with others for 3 or 4 years and then i got serious and wanted my own pack so i ended up with a red headed walker gyp named pink and ybmc named yeller and my bulldog man i chased that walker dog for miles every weekend i think i caught 6 hogs that year lol decided to breed the two and got puppie and get rid of the hound and been tryin to breed this lil cross been at this breedin for about six years and it has worked but something always happens the last one i kept was a star at a year and half  but lost a batlle to a bad hog i now have two pups out of this blood so i hope it works been a long road but i have had fun my ol yeller dog still produces pork and i have aqiured another brindle cat that is pretty good also and i got a good lil bulldog funny thing was all them years i had a jam up bulldog and chitty hunting dogs and then when i sure enough got to where i knew i could go bay a hog my bulldog was old and toothless funny how it worked out lost my bulldog last year and sure was hard he was that once in a lifetime bulldog that people talk about you turn him loose you can go head and go in with him they was fixin to be a catchin goin on but it sure has been fun

[T-Bob Parker]

Started out with $hit eaters, now I got potlickers, so things are looking up. 

[buddylee]

I'm poorer

[Mike]

I'm poorer

Ha ha, yes sir... and dang dog food is over 3 times the price since I started!

[hatchet10]

I went down to the pound and picked up the meanest bulldog pups I could find and some little fiest that i thought was a pointer at the time,poor fella never grew. I got a bunch of shock collars and broke them off of everything but hogs. Been doing good ever since. Sometimes I get big hogs, sometimes I don't. But the ones i do catch, are pretty much mauled up. Don't ever let anybody tell you bulldogs wont strike.

[Nannyslayer]

I have to say, I've come a long way in a short time. 

We started out with 6 Catahoula's, 3 of which were excellent in the bay pen.  Outside of that, they wouldn't really go look for a hog.  We raised a pair of Catahoula's from a gentleman from central Missouri, extremely smart dogs.  We would walk all these dogs around for miles hoping they would find a hog but nothing.  We lucked into a coon hound that coon hunted great, but wouldn't stay tree'd.  He hated hogs for some reason, and would leave a fire hot coon track for a 5 day old hog track.  We bought him, and he pretty well trained our dogs.  Now, when he hits the ground, we have 2 Catahoula's that go right with him, and we kill hogs every trip.  The Catahoula's that we bought that were great in a bay pen, we use them as catch dogs.  They do a great job of it, but we also have a 1/2 lab and 1/2 pit that will find her own hog, but will also lock onto it, so it's really hard to keep track of her.  So we use her just as a catch dog as well. 

[Bowhunter1994]

Just getting started myself, but I look forward to having my own pack one day!


Sonny

[bob]

I bought one BMC for 500 and two pups , those pups are now six and great dogs ,  i bought another for 1000 and also done some line breeding to continue the previous owners dreams and have a 4 yr old turning it on , they all are loose baying dogs , med range and will stay on one from Oklahoma to Texas  , on the cd side I have game bred pits , I spent money here also , they are reg old family reds , dynamite CDs , will catch a train if it look like a hog , I'm a very lucky man with the dogs I've trained and made over the last eight yrs , wild boar USA  vest has kept the bulldogs in good health , my male is now six and getting ready to breed to my reg female I bought from Louisiana ,  1350 for her lol , yes sir 1350 for a bull dog , in my opinion the best CDs around , really lucky on this side of my pack also , I've came along ways in eight yrs  , so blessed

[hillbilly]

I bought one BMC for 500 and two pups , those pups are now six and great dogs ,  i bought another for 1000 and also done some line breeding to continue the previous owners dreams and have a 4 yr old turning it on , they all are loose baying dogs , med range and will stay on one from Oklahoma to Texas  , on the cd side I have game bred pits , I spent money here also , they are reg old family reds , dynamite CDs , will catch a train if it look like a hog , I'm a very lucky man with the dogs I've trained and made over the last eight yrs , wild boar USA  vest has kept the bulldogs in good health , my male is now six and getting ready to breed to my reg female I bought from Louisiana ,  1350 for her lol , yes sir 1350 for a bull dog , in my opinion the best CDs around , really lucky on this side of my pack also , I've came along ways in eight yrs  , so blessed

One thing for sure a good catching bulldog are worth there weight in gold. I have let a lot of hogs get away here latelt cause of missing bulldogs.

[wildchild]

I started out hunting with my grandfather and getting his culls but at age 11 i didn't care i was just happy to be in the woods now 11 years later i run mostly bmc or bmc plott cross still hunt with my grandfather and my wife .