training a dog to wind.

used to the rig and you should keep him interested in a game of find the lost caged piglet or coon at the same time.

Beg borrow or steal a bunch of small hogs, get somebody to weave up some type of a rope bag that you can place a small piglet into. Take the piglet in the sack and hide it just off of the road you are going to drive later with your dog in the rigged position, try to drive into the wind and watch the dog and slow down it you have to and hiss em some if he is not sure where the piglet is or coon is hidden. Let him smell and if he trys to wind release him and praise him if he strikes the game and then goes into the brush to find it and bay it, it helps like crazy if you have a rig dog to help him open up the first time out. You need to have a lot of hogs in dog kenels or weaved sacks and do this all morning and try to get him striking off of the now usual place to ride. Repeat repeat repeat again and again and praise him like mad if he starts winding and trying to bark to let you know he has found the lost piglet for you. It will soon become a game for him and he will now know when he is in the striking box and you are saying wind em up boy that he is going hog or coon hunting, some dogs open more than normal, some wont but will with another dog, it helps if the dog is slow to open or wind if you drive into the wind where the piglet is hidden and hiss em up tons and even bark like a dog to get him to open. Repeat, praise, do it again and soon he will know he is hunting when he is removed from the dog box and placed on the strikeing rig. There is a lot more but thats how i did it from watching lion and dry ground snow hunted hounds in mexico and Az utah and south texas. I have rat terriers that will strike off a rig on dead hogs and deer that city boy shoot and leave, blackmouth curs and leps are great hood dogs, some fast tracking hounds do great too if you have lots of 10000 acre places to hunt. Lavon davis and Billy Don Blevins prob first hood hog dog i saw