EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Read rumors of real one out hog dogs on this board for years. Proud to say I own one I think lol. Serious note had some time to kill yesterday afternoon waiting to lock my bosses place up and do the evening feeds for him so I could go home. Swung by the house at lunch and grabbed Lizzo and Mickey. They hung out at the pens for a little while processed the handful of cattle we had in. Wrapped that up and headed to a little Mott on a hill hogs like to lay in. Ain’t far from some of our feed bunks. Lizzo didn’t hunt much and I wasn’t sure what to think as this is first time I’ve ever asked her to hunt for herself. Pick up and headed to the river bottom. Had a wallow been active in bottom of one of our traps against a big stand of blood weeds the hogs seem to love. Kicked her down on the wallow. Immediately could see a difference in her mentality. She knew there was a hog somewhere. Hissed her through the fence and In about a minute she was caught about 100 yards up the river. Went in there and she had about an 80 lbs 3 legged boar caught. Flipped him, tied him, changed him. Went and put dogs up and then parted ways with mr tripod. Hope to meet him again one day. Proud of Lizzo, really wasn’t sure if she could do it, or cared to. Little Mickey even got in there and gave some barks while I was tying the hog. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230603/e937bd581d54e6051b0fa1304d37452f.jpg)
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Pickin on the handicapped! Lol sounds like she did good. She sounds like a fun dog.


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Thomas, she is a fun dog! A very useful tool used in the right situation. She is not a bulldog though by any means. She does catch. And she is safe. It’s just different. No way to explain it, just have to hunt with one.

 Emphasis on the “Sight” in “Sight Hound”. She is a building block in my opinion. I just had the chance to get her sister who is supposedly doing well like her. I passed. She needs a touch more catch, and a pinch more hardness crossed in.

 Set lizzo up to succeed and she will, set her up to fail and you will probably find out that’s what you did. Shes young yet and I am being critical on a dog I’ve got no business owning.


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She’ll likely get harder with maturity as well. That’s one of the negatives with those crosses in my opinion. If you can wait on mental maturity it usually pays off.


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That’s what I have been told t dog. Hoping it plays out that way. She’s a neat dog none the less.
  It’s Fun poking fun at Dean but Form4Function/blackstreak. If you see this I’d genuinely be interested on any insight you have into this type of cross. Think she’s 1/8 game bred pit. Maybe 1/4 but I’m pretty sure an 1/8. Supposedly out of successful coyote dogs out of Kansas. One of these days I’m gonna put the leg work in and make the phone calls and find out exactly where she came from.

She’s earned a spot here, but I’d love to get her to a point where I could just take her on the truck and go ride feed bunks or skirt some fields and catch hogs consistently.


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If I didn’t like cur dogs and NEEDED to catch hogs. I’d cross a bulldog over a plott and hunt the same dang way. My country ain’t really designed for it but man the Aussies make it look fun!

I have always said if I was into hog eradication I would hunt bulldog crossed on cur or hound and hunt on horse with them

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Slim, my rougher dogs (the black dogs I’ve messed with since I started hunting) are blackmouth and pit crossed. I caught a good bit of hogs with them. I’ve been trying to get away from the rougher dogs and going more towards deep casting bay dogs, but no doubt you can catch a lot of hogs with rough dogs. I have two things that I would advise, first being if they catch they need to truly catch. My mindset being if you catch, then you need to fully commit and stay hooked no matter what. The other thing being if they catch and can swing around so that they’re side to side with the hog and just turn with the hog then they will survive a lot longer. My old Dum Dum dog would never get cut unless another dog was there and knocked him in front of the pig. Those dogs can work well on smaller properties as well.

Good luck with your gyp. From my experience the first few times getting cut down will show you a lot. They will either learn from it or they won’t. I’ve seen dogs get cut down once and then never get cut again because they learned how to stay away from the teeth. I’ve also seen dogs that got cut down every single time they caught teeth with no exceptions.


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Ive had an scott bred AB, 2 ppc dogos, and 1 malinois I used primarily as a lead in cd, but all would take a track on their own as well. Kind of cool to have the diversity.

IMO I'd skip the sight hound and breed to the malinois to a bulldog. All the speed and catching but they use their nose allot better and dont take long to mature

Ive got a male for free to breed to if yall have afemale