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« on: November 19, 2022, 07:12:30 am » |
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Those are true scenarios. It’s interesting to me to see how many dogs figure out to go back to the starting point after you catch a hog from a busted sounder. Some of them will relay but never go back where the squatters are. This is understandable if they re-bay more than one at a time out of the sounder. They are going to relay on the hogs out the smaller group. Lots of times if I get to my young dog after a sounder busts, I will cast them back through where the sounder was when they busted. But it all depends on if they can hear another bay or where and what the other dogs are doing. You are right though, it’s fun to see hog and dog IQ in these situations. Years ago I had a big spotted boar that was really intelligent. Instead of being out front like most dominant hogs, he would understand where the pressure was coming from and be standing completely to the opposite side of it. Catch dogs would catch and the sounder would bust. Bay dogs would scatter trying to stop another and when you looked up he would just be standing still letting everyone else have all the furious attention. By the time you got your hog tied he would be walking off across a pasture headed to his retreat. A few times the dogs got on him but he had such a head start by then that it was a heck of a race. It was always the same route too. He was a bad dude solo. Every time he left dogs hammered at each spot he stopped. We finally got caught him slipping and bayed him without the sounder. It was something to see how smart and educated he was and how he would use the other hogs.
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