hogdog history question

I agree this is a great thread and I hope it keeps going.

I would love to have a dog like old Yella!...... "Hog tracks Yella! Get em!!".....Yella goes and bays a sounder of about 20 hogs. Travis climbs a tree so he can can rope pigs and mark them from safety. "Yella! now bring em under this tree so I can start my marking!" Yella promptly on commands herds the whole sounder under the tree!!! That Yella was a dog!!!! lol.

Until recently thanks to the WWW I lived in my own little hog hunting world. I have been hog hunting for over 20 years and never heard of a "RCD" until I joined ETHD last year.lol.
I was introduced to hog hunting by SE Texas cowboys that still to this day dont use catch dogs. The curs catch on command and the big hogs get roped if needed but that is rare when you hunt 8 plus dogs the way those guys breed them.

I had to shoot a bad boar hog one time back when I was getting started and brought him home for dog food. I bumped into an old hog hunter in Stoneham Texas at the Shell station that gave me a lot of grief about killing that big hog. He insisted that I follow him home so he could give me a bulldog pup for a catch dog so I wouldnt have to shoot anymore bad boars.
Well, I ended up culling that dog for catching my horse a few months down the road but the conversation with that hog hunter got me to thinking differently when it came to the huge boars and some kind of catch dog.
I like em! Especially the ones that my friends have and lead. lol.