EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Well if anyone wants to know about boxers and using them for hunting hogs then you can ask me. I have beeh hunting with dogs for 4 years now and I have a 4 year old male brindle boxer who weighs around 85 pounds and he has caught over 800 hogs in the last 2 years. He is a fine catch dog and he has been catching hogs since he was 6 months old. He is purebred and AKC registered. The biggest hog that he ever caught was 379 lbs. He caught that boar by himself not to mention. The worst cut he has ever had was a 1 inch cut on his chest. He is a great family dog and house broke. I've never owned a better dog in my life. I also have a 2 year old male black boxer. He is also AKC registered and catches hogs any size and any time. He just turned 2 but he has been on about 50 hogs already including a 288 pound russian that cut him up good. He is a great dog and he does everything I ask. He is very energetic and doesn't get tired. He loves tracking hogs too. Both of these boxers do the job and always bring the hogs down. I never have to worry whether they are going to lose the hog or not. Now, I have a ten month old dogo female that hunts with them and she has been catching since she was 3 months old. I also have a 4 month old dogo male and he is catching too. Personally, boxers and dogos are my favorite breeds. I've owned curs, catahoulas, border collies, heelers, anatolian shepherds, pit bulls, poodles, great pyranese, german shepherd, and a jack russel, but my boxers and dogos are my favorite. They have good atttitudes, are very very gritty, have lots of game, very protective, well mannered, can take care of themselves when it comes to other dogs, and are very loyal. I know people don't hunt with boxers but I do, and let me tell you. If you get the right one they can sure be a great hunting dog. My dogs also hunt coons, bobcat, coyotes(every now and again after I shoot them), fox, and ringtails when I take them varmint hunting. I know first hand that boxers can be very good hunting dogs. They are the best I've ever had.

Post up some pictures...always like to see pictures of hogs and dogs ;)

You must have alot of game where you live, to catch 800 hogs in two years plus all those other creatures.....all with one dog......wow!

I watched this video.  They don't seem to be holding very good.  Maybe, this was when they were younger, I would not know.  A good catch dog won't be getting run around when it has a good hold on swine.  The dog will be set in one place so to speak.  JMO


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rorUD-ewblY

when my dogs catch varmints I call it trashing....... :laugh:

We have a couple dogs that we let "trash"   My bulldog Tyson has caught hogs, coyote, and cattle intentionally. To date, he has never caught something that we was not released to catch.

Mandi's greyhound, Foxy, is a hog dog, but for fun, we will put her on rabbits, or other small furries.

It's only trashing, if you don't want them to do it  ;)

Heck, I bet the foundation for most of the dogs we use today, were hunting dogs... anything that would go in the pot. Hogs, coon, squirrel, etc.

i have been breeding boxer for a little over 6 years now. there good dogs and have some good hunt drive to them.  i have one boxer that i train my pups with.  I have a liter on the ground right now and just might keep one back as a hog dog only.  Glad to see others are enjoying them as hunting dogs.  The bullenbieser blood that is in a boxer was breed to hunt.  Don't care for the jaw power too much if your gonna use them as a catchdog, but they will hunt whatever it is you want them too.  Mine love Squirrel's as well!!!

that is alot of hogs for 2 years...

yea well I hunt 3-4 times a week all year around and I have access to about ten different ranches that are over 3,000 acres. So I always have plenty of game. I'm in central texas and we have tons of hogs over here. Matter of fact about 9 months ago I caught a 168 pound sow in my front yard. But I do ALOT of hunting. I hunt every week at least twice so I tend to rack up on hogs good. But I catch alot because I have acccess to alot of land and not just the same ranch over and over again.

yea I'm sorry that boxer pup is my buddy's dog and he wanted to see what it would do with a hog so I turned it loose with my cur/cat on a little hog. Sorry I didn't mention that. That pup is actually the son of my brindle male and that is why he looks so similar. But there is a brindle female, a male fawn, and another brindle male that are catching hogs now that are from the same litter as the one in the video. Type this into youtube. It's another video I have. It's alot better. "hog hunting dog boxer"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMig5M-3pnQ

Wow nice video,, I use to have a nice pair of reg. boxers never thought of hunting them! had a pup from them that ran with my bird dogs some he was all flush and no point,, lol...averaging 6-8 hogs a week is a pretty good task year round, you gotta a good collection of skulls??

800 hogs even at 4 days a week that is 3.8 hogs every hunt man WOW! i would keep the boxer forever man. And to only have suffered one minor cut on such great hogs he must have a great form. or something. But awesome man. Congrats on that.

Sorry correcting myself you said two years. That is 2 hogs a trip. man thats good. Well that is one good looking boxer for sure. Does his under bight effect his catching ability ever? that has always been my concern with them.

i had a boxer for a while though she had a splash of wolfhound in her too. she could hold any size pig and went right on and grabbed the first pig she ever saw. she was a bit lazy if i went walking with her so i got rid of her but the bloke her bought her said she strikes from the back of his ute now and he wouldnt part with her for anything.
(http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy113/slickhound/PA070278.jpg)
(http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy113/slickhound/rush.jpg) lots of blokes use them in their pure form around here aswell as english bullterriers.

D, you know that never happens! :o

A while back this friend of mine had a half boxer/bmc female that was a very hard hunter. He caught quite a bit of hogs with her. She didn't have a cold nose and she was hot nosed on a track but her range and hunt made up for it. She also won quite a few baying contests.

I must say that I was skeptical about your boxers, but your video and pics certainly show that they are capable of handling the tasks at hand.  Boxers ( German Bulldogs)  share all the same ancestors as the other strains of bulldogs and therefore should be able to handle the jobs that they were originally bred for, however, the breeding programs(generally speaking) of most bulldog breeds (boxers as well) has trended toward none functional bully type dogs that are anatomically unable to perform year round.  How do your boxers hold up to August and September heat?

Thank you for sharing.

Joey Young

A friend of mine just this past year took his pet boxer to a park next to a wildlife area and the boxer saw some hogs and he rolled out after them and my friend finally got his dog back the next day. I guess some of these boxers haven't lost their prey drive in spite of the dog show/backyard breeders... 8)

i have a boxer and he loves catchin........ cats!!! ;D havent ever tried hogs maybe i should

I've never had problems with his under bite it doesn't affect the way he catches or holds. He just latches on to the ear and doesn't let go

I've nevr had problems with my dog's under bite. He performs just the same as any other catch dog would

my dog is supposedly half boxer half grayhound, im gonna start training him soon. Any potential?

I'm sure it could be I know they like to use them in Australia. Main thing is you just have to put him on a hog and see how he acts. I know alot of people who use pits and american bulldogs and dogos(I own 2 myself), and not all of them catch hogs. Even though a dog was bred for a certain purpose or a certain way doesn't guarantee that he is going to do it. I've seen a pit bull that was put on a 40 pound pig and everyone thought that he was the greatest catch dog ever. But what catch dog doesn't look good on a 40 pound pig? Anyway they finally put that pit in with a 213 pound boar and that dog took one good hit from that boar and he tucked tail and run, jumped out of the pen, and run into the dog box and was crying. I have also seen the opposite, where they hit the boar and never let go. But your dog should have some potential to him. It sounds like a good mix. Just try em out and you'll know for sure.