Message #568930

[sacatchdog]

Hi tdog, dont know if i can put my 5 cents but we hunt bushpigs here in south africa and here we need various kinds of hounds and dogs in our pack! Here with us a chase can last for 500meters to 15kilometers. We have to have a few medium to cold nosed hounds, usually blueticks, to find the pigs wich takes us a few hours to half a day sometimes. Then we use some foxhounds , walkerhounds  and greyhounds wich are the more warm nosed hounds which job is to put pressure on the pigs so we can bay them long enough to put some catchdogs onto them! I use american bulldog crosses for running catchdogs but most of my colleuges only double up with a lot more hounds to bay the pigs and then shoot them! Needless to say, all our dogs must be able to do a lot of kilometers per day and they must have a lott of gritt and a clever dog goes a longer way as our bushpigs here are very agressive and its easy to lose a whole pach of dogs in a year!