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It never fails that our catch dogs will eventually start finding their own hogs. Bad part is they usually only bark once or twice before they catch. We have had all breeds do it. We even borrowed a Sure nuff catch dog and was told she would never find her own hog. After couple of months she started striking hogs too. Even our Pitt/BMC catch dog started striking. Runs into problem when u have 5 dogs n they all strike. Ugh.

sounds like a good problem to have

i hunt on horseback and i have a hard time finding bulldogs that wont hunt on there own when run loose. i use a shock collar to train my bulldogs to stay tight till they hear a bay.

are you running your bulldogs loose and walking , atv or horseback ?

i got 3 in my yard that will flat out hunt down a pig

X2 is that sarcasm or something? I've never heard of someone saying they have to many dogs that can find hogs. ??? Why don't you just keep your catch dog on lead until the strike dogs bay one up?

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 I walk hunt, my pit will wind hogs but I don't let her hunt loose that's not her job. She is to go in catch a bayed hog not run around and got winded before it's her turn. JMO everyone is different.

Catch dogs don't bark. ;)

I just run lead in catch dogs but when we are walk hunting the ol' pits start acting stupid then next thing ya know bay dogs are getting one bayed up. They just seem to get a lil more piggy. I'm sure if we turned 'em loose they could but not how I run so I'd say if ya gonna let them run loose like that just put a garmin around their and go to catchin' pigs.

my bulldogs will strike out of the truck on a hot one but i never considered it a problem .

Those sound like one out types not cds, wish I could get my cd to bark when its by himself...or do I ;D

One of my Catchdogs... oh excuse me.. My " Rough Pitbull " will bark if he finds his own hog before he catches sometimes... Not a problem to me..  Ive had several people tell me its a good thing.. You know where he is and that you better get that way quick... But if he is going to a bay or another dog is there then he has no hesitation to run in and catch...   

i dont mind my pit baying the hog if they found it becouse when i get there they will catch  .but if another dog finds the hog they are straight catch nomatter how big it is

Any full blooded bulldog that ever bays a hog is cull as a catch dog.

Those are the ones that will put you in a bind one day and get good dogs killed.

x2 i went with a fella about two weeks ago who said his bulldog was a jam up catch dog .... my dogs bayed up a good sow an we had to use my cur dogs to catch her that bulldog just barked

I agree that a bulldog that runs in to a bay and barks is a cull...
But IMO, a bulldog that tracks, finds, barks a couple times, and catches BY HIMSELF is fine...
Not barking would be putting him in a bind more than it would if he didnt...
I didnt like it at all when he first did it, but the more i talk to others and the more i think about it, i have no problem with it...
Now if I send him to a bay and he runs in and barks and doesnt attempt to catch, that will be the day he is a cull to me...   ;)

Well i know for a fact mine will find and catch hogs but they won't bark..that happened to me many of times. Usually it happened a lot when we roaded dogs and the strike dogs lost the hogs my catchdogs found and caught them. Just recently I walk hunted with critter catcher and it's new to me because i have always hunted from a truck. My dogs get wore out more on the lead than letting them run so its still something im figureing out.

I had a pit that always bayed a hog before she would catch she would  get the hog like she wanted it and catch she never bayed more than a few seconds she never got. Cut and die at the old age of 10 years old and never caused a bay dog to get cut .

it might be a cull to some but i wish i had a whole pack of them  i trust mine 100%   

We don't use pure pit bulls n all ours are running. We don't haul or lead anything. Takes fun out of hunting IMO. Guess we have to deal with it. No worries. Been doing it for a long time just thought u guys had some advice. Thanx for stories.

if it works for you, then keep it up.

If I turn a bulldog loose, Its beacuse he is looking at a hog, that I feel he can run down,  or at a bay. 

Ha... I know there are more than one way to catch a hog, but that is no cd my friend. I've heard of a couple half bulldogs that were rcd's that would bark twice when they struck alone and then catch, not my style so I dont know much about it but I would keep a real bulldog around or a pistol for the bad hogs if it were my style.

I can say I have 2 cds (1 AB & 1 Dogo) that will hunt there butts off and NEVER bark! I wish they would just hang out, I dont like my bulldogs hunting b/c of times when I just want to get back to the truck and have the curs picked up on the wheeler etc its nice to let the bulldog run back for exersize etc

Mike no truer words are spoken! Cds Dont bark, Ever! Nuff said

Ive seen pride get in the way of some dog men with this, no need to lye & make excuses & repeat the breeding etc just handle the situation and move on, dogs dissappoint us all at times and make us liars so its how you handle it that makes up your character in my opinion

Are yall serious?!?! I dont like hunting with new people for a reason, mostly style's and opinions that conflict. Im not saying you cant catch allot of pigs like that but a cd like that would never come out of the woods with me after I saw or heard this! Thats a problem with any cd b/c it shows you there true spirit and that type of cull will come back and haunt you one night in a tight spot in the woods, stuck in mud etc. Regardless if you do choose to breed them please disclose this type of info before selling some other hunter a pup as a cd! Honesty is very impt with cds. I can tell you my ETHD hated unicorns are harder than any of this B.S

lol  ya  im serious i hunt alone alot and im not one bit scared my dogs wont catch and hold just becouse they will bark a few times if they find the hog.but 99% of the time i use just curs no bulldog so my curs that catch aint supose to bark if they strike either  . i like a pit that strikes and catches its own pigs  to hell with being pulled around by a lead in dog or haveing one that stays with you right under your feet  thats the ones that get culled around here

Well good deal buddy. My great friend Ernie hunts like that, its just not for me, 4 curs that catch as soon as they see him, no cd needed. I dont like my curs that gritty, I dont like hustleing to a bay. I like them to strike and bay with all the bottom needed. If I take two hrs to get there its no big deal, once there done baying there just going back on the chain for a week and taking your time going to a bay doesnt work with a rcd in the bunch! That said all my lead ins are versatile enough to be a rcd or 1 out etc simply b/c I like the all in one package and we change it up in certain situations. Happy hog hunting!

I got a dogo pit mix gyp that will strike out of the back of the truck and on the ground.