The post brings back a lot of memories!!!! I am 42y/o, born and raised in south LA all my life. I can remember the days as a kid with my grandpaw- race horses, fighting roosters, and good whiskey! I try to explain to my kids the things we used to do, and they look at me like I am crazy!
Now we chase wild pigs in the marsh in airboats, when we used to do it on horseback. Never had a catch dog back then, just a rope. If it was a sow for butcher, or boar that needed to be cut, we used a rope and the bay dogs caught as soon as the rope hit the pig w/o telling them a word. If it was a barr hog, we would call them off w/o even dismounting and move on to the next one. Funny thing was we used the same dogs for everything, hogs, cows, barn yard protection, varmit control, etc.etc.......And they seemed to know exactly what we had planned for the day within minutes of leaving the barn. How was that possible?
? We never went work cows and had a dog chase a pig, or vice versa! Those dogs were never on a cahin, just hung out around the back of the house and barn. When my grandparents were home they would bark if someone arrived, until the people were greeted, then they shut up and never went past the fence. If no one was home, you best stay in your vehicle because they would eat you up! And I can't remember them getting any formal training from my grandfather. Weird, they just knew.
