Why do we run so many bay dogs?

Well I have had both great ruff dogs that caught hogs 300 lbs and under with out catch dogs and I sew dogs up all the time and had two three get killed with vest on and highly rated vest no junk. Then I said well let me try the not so ruff dogs and I ended up chasing hogs half way across the country .

Then I said well it must have to do with the quality of bay dogs a man runs not the number of bay dogs he runs been knowing that for a long time just hard headed and love ruff dogs but man it gets old sewing up dogs everytime and digging holes. So I picked me out three that I thought would work the best together not all out catchy but would sure nuff stop one if he tried to run and three that were smart nuff to know what they can and cannot catch and back off hold and bay.

After much work finally got my first look at the real thing in action with the biggest boar hog I have seen in years if not the biggest period I have seen with my own eyes here the other week. Went with a friend of mine he has some pretty ruff kind of dogs his went one way mine went the other mine ended up down at the river baying like hell his was looking elsewere so I told him they got one at the river and took off while he was still trying to find his . Got to the river snuck in didnt have a catch dog just my gun finally get in there 15 yards away and the three dogs I thought would work was working perfect they was spinning this big ole boar like a top and he could do noting else sat back watched for a min as it was pretty as could be then raised my gun had my sights on the big boar and all the sudden I heard something come crashin in from the side and behind me it was my buddys dogs they ran in and put the pressure on got there asses handed to them the big boar broke and I walked four miles down the river were they had him bayed again on a point out at the rivers edge , bayed solid again my three spinning like a top again pretty pretty pretty problem was I had a hard time getting close nuff for a sure shot as it was so thick could hardly get threw when I finally did get close nuff and was about to put the old boar in his place here comes my buddys ruff ass dogs again and guess what busted the bay the boar hit the river crossed and that was the end of the story!

What did I learn from this first hand ? Some dogs think they are bad till the hog whips there asses and hands it to them on a platter ! These dogs bust bays left and right the hog runs for miles and the good dogs pay the price usally with getting bad hurt are their lives! I dont know and dont claim to know if this is most of the peoples problems out there but I sure do suspect it is a big part of running hogs !

When I ran my ruff ruff dogs they were sure nuff some bad boys and girls we caught hogs regular close to 300 with out a bulldog are catch dog but after many many big vet bills and great dead dogs and some not so great it kinda leaves a man with a different attuide towards what a good ruff bay stop dog is and a dog that is a bay busting peice of chit !

3 sure nuff good find bay stop type of dogs and two catch dogs is what I will use from now on . If other folks wants to run theirs I will leave mine at home it just dont work mixing dogs somebody is gonna come home with less dogs at some time are another and speakin from long time experince it is usally yours and your best one that you cannot replace for years and years!