I got a couple coming pups from old old bloodlines this year and am sure gonna try and work with it and make some really really nice catch dogs . I had a little dog here 7 - 8 years ago what was almost straight Shory bred called him Cannon Ball he was 45 lbs of hog catching machine . He was raised from a pup with all my dogs got his butt kicked a few times by me when he was young for acting up and I never let it get started are give him the chance and he was great.
x2...I had one red red nose about 20 years ago that was one heck of a catch dog...he was raised with my dogs but he and the lead strike dog never saw eye to eye...
he was well socialized and broke off cows through lots of exposure...but one day a buddy of mine was trying out a pack of dogs and I had a good handle on my catch dog...I turned him out to empty out before I loaded him on the wheeler...those dogs bayed a cow and he flew down there and caught that cow...no amount of shock therapy could break him off of cows after that...
