Here’s a pic of Clyde’s sire, King, waiting to get permission to go to a bay. King has the best handle & temperament that I’ve personally witnessed on a bulldog. Head full of sense and a strong quiet confidence in any situation. He will lay on his belly and wait to be sent a lot of times. He’s a stockier built dog than Clyde with a much broader head & better mouth. If I had a quality female, he would be my sure of choice. Both dogs are in the 70 to 75lb range.




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Shotgun, he sure enough has more pluses than minus's. He is young enough and should only get better.

Thanks WOW. Your knowledge & experience with bulldogs is certainly appreciated by me.


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I feel your pain TDog. I lost my last good female CD in April 2021 and I THINK I finally found another good one. I will say that I ask ALOT from a CD. I hunt 1 or 2 bay dogs at a time that bay loose and don’t always give the CD a good, clean shot. They have taken damage and have become a little hesitant to sink teeth until after the CD hits. I take the blame for this by hunting sub par CDs behind them for too long. They get tired of getting wrecked and having long races because a CD can’t get hooked.
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Clyde is an 18 month old AB/Pit cross.
Disposition/Personality- outstanding. Confident and outgoing to people and other dogs. Shows deference to older dogs he respects and restraint with dogs he is superior to. Loves all people. Almost annoyingly social when he was younger. Still had puppy in him until recently.

Handle- good and getting better. Walks off lead to bays. He does have trouble not whining when I get close to bays & try to listen for a minute or video. He also needs to get better recall on a missed or busted hog. He doesn’t want to come back and this is a major concern.

Athleticism - above that of most AB’s & Pits I have been around. Explosive when you send him and surprisingly fast for a couple hundred yard bursts. Good ability to wrestle & move with bigger hogs. Good at getting hooked on first or second shot MOST of the time. He can be sent as a 1 out RCD if you get him close and give him a fair shot.

Mouth/Holding Style - not a super hard mouth dog. He doesn’t shake or regrip much and moves really well with hogs.

Gameness- 100%. He is there to stay. He has been tested enough for me to trust him absolutely.

Stamina/Recovery Ability- I’ve caught 5 hogs in 45 minutes back to back to back when it was cool and he never took a deep breath. He has good natural wind BUT he’s not super heat tolerant. I haven’t asked him to catch more than 2 on a hunt since it got hot and I’m nervous every time I send him in this heat. Not bad considering his breeding but not a strong point overall.

Prey Drive - very high. Almost to a fault. He would nail anything that moved when I got him. He’s calming down with heavy hunting & a little age.

His biggest fault is that he will bark every breath on a hog that breaks until he catches or gets outran. He has also really struggled getting hooked on sounders at times. I think all the hogs going every direction just short circuits his mind. Again, he seems to be getting better about not barking and getting hooked with time.

A lot of guys probably wouldn’t feed him but I like him.


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Thanks fellas. It was a blessing to get him caught w/o taking too much damage. The hog was a scrapper. He had scars and fresh wounds from fighting with other boars. He had a pretty fresh gouge on his rear end that makes me think he wasn’t the biggest and baddest out there. Not sure I want to find out!

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I’ve been hunting my young dogs pretty steady lately. Two 18 month old half brothers along with a catch dog the same age. Primarily hunting in a bottom with recently harvested wheat and a couple corn patches surrounded by ditches full of water and a few creeks that run through it as well. Hogs are thick in there.
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Took 1 bay dog (Percy) and Clyde the CD this morning. Walked Clyde to a sounder and RCD’d one first rattle out of the box. Got him cooled off and put Percy on the ground along a creek that runs parallel to the wheat & corn. He took a track south about 300 yards and gave a long, intense locate and went to baying. Listened to him for a few minutes and I could tell the hog had his attention by the way he was baying. Vested Clyde and walked 60 out and sent him. He got hooked and Percy hung the other ear to help. They were taking a pretty good thrashing so I hustled in and dispatched him pretty quick. We got touched up pretty good but came out ok.

Heck of a boar in my book. Proud of my young dogs. They have been chewed up, spit out, and booed off stage the last few months……but they keep at it.


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You guys have been slayin em. Good job. I think the hogs would rather deal with the gators than yalls dogs @ this point.


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Top shelf dog work man! Dogs with that type of stick/bottom are not common. I know how hard you have worked to develop them. Nice to see you enjoy the fruits of your labor.


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Nice hunt NLA. Really like the way your dogs operate. Hope the CD gyp heals up quick.


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Second Boar


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Loaded Rousty, Yancy, & Lynda up for a run Saturday morning. 20+ mph winds had my expectations in check. Hunted for a couple hours with no luck. Dogs were hunting at a nice lope making 200 to 300 yard loops. Not many tracks or much sign at all. I figured the hogs would be down in the draws out of the wind so we kept pushing. Dogs got piggy on a fence crossing. Me & Lynda sat & waited while they trailed into the draw. About 10 minutes & 600 yards later, they bayed solid. Lynda & I eased in to the bay and they had a good 200 - 220 range boar bayed in a wash/cave at the bottom of a 40’ cliff. Got some good video & watched the boar charge the bay dogs from the cave for a couple minutes. Sent Lynda & git him caught & stuck. This is one of the coolest, pretty spots I’ve bayed a hog so I took the time to sit & appreciate it and take some pics.

After enjoying the first bay, I sent the bay dogs again and they got bayed solid again about 300 yards west across another deep draw. I didn’t expect another mature boar. Figured it would be a hot sow. Walked Lynda in to about 20 yards, grabbed some video & sent her. The boar smacked her and both bay dogs off and broke about 40 yards and backed into a wash and made his last stand. Roughly same size hog but a little ranker than the first. We got touched up enough for me to call it a hunt.

Pics don’t do these hogs justice. I’m a terrible photographer. I need to figure out how to upload video. Hope you guys enjoy!


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I prefer cast dogs but I hunt track dogs. For me, it’s about aligning your dogs with the places you have to hunt and the time you have to hunt. North Texas is undergoing a population boom and our places to hunt are drying up and getting smaller. I have to hunt smaller tracts of land. Work & Family responsibilities relegate me to hunting the occasional weekday evening and weekends. It’s better for me to have dogs that I can drop in sign that get bayed relatively soon.

I used to have hard going cast dogs and it got to where I was out hunting the places I had and crossing roads all the time. Whiteknuckles, puckered you know what chasing dogs on the Garmin hoping they didn’t get ran over wasn’t much fun.

I’ve come to appreciate the ability to just go hunt for an hour or two and be able to bay/catch a hog or two, catch em up & come home. There are times when sign is thin that I miss cast dogs. If I had more country & time to hunt, I would have cast dogs first sure.


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Dog work don’t get much better than that……heck of a job man! Nice hogs as well!


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Thought Provoking post Old Man.

Disclaimer- I appreciate hounds and cur dogs. I grew up hunting hounds but I currently hunt cur dogs. Both have their place. Hound/cur crosses have made some of the best I have seen go. I like & appreciate BOTH.

In my experience, well bred hounds have a higher success rate performing in various terrain & conditions across the country. I speculate the reason for this is because they are “ hardwired” to hunt, trail, jump, chase, locate, & stay treed/bayed. The type of hound I am referencing hunts for themselves, not for their owner/handler or pack mates. Big Game Hunters & Competition Coon Hunters have dogs performing well from coast to coast & border to border.

A well bred cur dog pup has the same chance of making a dog anywhere as long as the game population allows them to be productive. I haven’t seen as many examples of cur dogs being successful across the country. I speculate this is because most cur dogs aren’t hard wired to pound out a cold track in tough conditions. There are some leopard dogs being used on bear & cat in California, Idaho, Montana, & Wyoming. They are usually in packs with hounds.

Buying finished/aged dogs can be tricky. I have firsthand experience with it. There will absolutely be a transition period and they will likely never perform quite as well in their new environment as they did “back home”. They will, however, be productive as long as the new owner is patient and puts them in sign on the desired game.

I see ALOT of dogs get returned on trial because the new owner is either impatient or does NOT hunt the dog the way they are used to being hunted. Ex. Buying a rig/road dog & expecting it to cast. Hunting in a large pack when the dog is used to being hunted alone or in small packs. Daytime vs Nighttime.

Again, I see hounds & hound crosses acclimating to change more often than pure cur dogs. Again, I speculate this is because they are hardwired to hunt for themselves.


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Nice hunt T dog. Baying sounders is my favorite part of hog dogging. It’s really fun to see how dogs react to it the first time or two. The intensity really ramps up! I feel like they are great training opportunities for young dogs. They learn how to relay & provide fresh “tracks” for pups to take. I’ve had alot of prospects bay their first solo hog off a scattered sounder. It seems to expand their range a little as well. I’ve also seen it overstimulate their nose & cause them to struggle. Sounds like Boyd is made of the right stuff. Look forward to following your posts to enjoy his development.


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Nice one man. It’s really hard for me to decide on breeding a cd liter or raising another from a pup, but it’s so rewarding and they’re moldable.


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Thanks Ark96. I understand your predicament all to well. I tried to breed a litter of CDs but couldn’t get the old gyp to take. I got an opportunity to get what I feel is a well bred pup so I took her. I personally would prefer to breed my own just to know what I’m getting. I definitely prefer to at least “raise” my cds from weaning age. Getting an older prospect or finished cd can be risky.


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