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I've been doing too much posting, I figure everybody is for some new meat.

  A couple of weeks ago I got a call to go find and catch a cow for a fellow. He said she was in a deer lease and had been since November but they wouldn't let him try to get her until deer season was over. Since season was over they had tried to get her but couldn't keep up with her in the brush and he'd heard I had dogs. I told him we'd give her a try so we set a time to meet, we got there and he had drawn me a map showing me how his place and the deer lease laid. He cut the fence in a corner of the deer lease onto his place, and told us she was usually in the far corner from here, He said maybe you can drive her back through here, he didn't think she could be roped in there where she was. I turned a couple of dogs out and told him we'd be back after while. We went looking for her, got over to the far nw corner and didn't locate her so we started to the east the dogs went to trailing rather than winding (I'd already had to tone them back as they had winded some cows on the next place over and gotten to them before I knew they were out of pocket) anyway they bayed her just off a big old pond there in the brush that had beaver holes all in, I could barely pick my way across the dam. They'd also dammed up the overflow making a big slough or swamp and dogs were bayed just off that in thick brush. She was a Charolais/Angus looking cow heavy bred, and the instant she saw me she broke but didn't get far and was bayed again repeat the process a couple of more times. I had saw Adam a few minutes before and figured he heard the dogs and would be set up on a small opening to the west where we'd came from, I got her punched out of the thicket right in his lap, he pitched a rope on her. I put a rope on her as well and dallied her up real short so she couldn't get behind me, her being muley I kept her right at my stirrup, Adam got behind her and we lead her a little over a mile to the pen. We were real careful not to choke her or stress her since she was so heavy bred, she cooperated real well, the old fellow was happy, he said you'all have her leading like a show cow, all's well that ends well.  It don't always go that smooth.

 We are patiently waiting for some Marsh Hunt stories and pictures, that's an annual event.

Grant I sent you a message

Sounds like those young dogs are really putting the effort in. Real good hunt.

The jowl really is not a bad place to catch and I am like you, I do not want one on the ear.

Ive been out of dogos for a while now but my buddy just got a nice female to breed those pups we have off grip to. both the males you gave me and there 2 sons were using now are solid. If you want a pup from the future breeding ill let you know

I don't know if he is a pit or a staff.

That sounds like he will make it to me. What breed is it?

  When we caught the 3 sows the other day, on the first one he was caught on the jowl with a deep bite. I took the time to break him off and put him on the ear and let him hold there.  The next one was caught with 3 dogs before he got there and he was caught on top of the neck, I didn't take time to move him. The third one was bayed with one dog and he was the only catchdog involved, he eared up, when I send him he leaves hard but twice I have seen him slow down and go around cover to get a better shot. I think he is going to get better and be quite functional, but even caught on the ear he wants a mouthful he'll have the ear but be deep in the head, on the jowl he'll have a mouthful, on the top of the neck he'll have a mouthful. I believe the sorry sucker is so anxious to bite he just takes what is available the instant he arrives, but always on the head. When conditions allow I'll continue to put him on the ear for awhile and see what happens.

  I know the ear is the universal standard and is good, but I wouldn't mind him settling on the jowl since all hogs have a jowl, and a dog doesn't get slung in front of the hog as bad. I had a bigger female bulldog that started on the jowl and caught that way for quite awhile before swapping to the ear, so I had a chance to watch the results and it worked well. What I absolutely don't want is one that catches somewhere on the snout.
 
  I had mentioned I'd shocked him back to me the other day when the hog broke twice, when the most recent boar broke he went about 100 feet and was coming back without me even calling him. Seems to be pretty intelligent and manageable.