...but as for as hunting I Knocked that out of them by useing them both ways!! This man I respect and he has hunted a long time and worked lots of cattle he said I want to see what they will do without handle (Just straight hogs no cows)
Lots of people will argue and say that if a dog's bred with it, he/she is bred with it and handle (or the nature vs. nurture debate) won't affect the end product. I strongly disagree. It sounds like you have also proven this theory.
Good looking pups by the way.
Bryant it is hard for my dogs to figure out what we are doing most days!!Because we hunt on horse and work cows on horse!!! They will find woods cows its really hard to explain how we do it but it happens!! A dog with the right amount of brain can sure figure it out!!But it does knock the range off one because of looking for that direction!! I do not want to feed 15 cow dogs and 15 hog dogs!! I might loose alittle by useing them both ways but I only have to feed 15 instead of 30!! I still can get the job done on both ends at the end of the day!! It is nice to throw a super hard hunting long range dog down and go find hogs these dogs of mine have produced several of those dogs!! My Jake dog I did not use on cows and he was the real deal hog dog he would get you in lots of trouble if you did not have enough land!!! When I turn pups loose on cows they hustle straight to them bay until I get there and then when I get ready to go I call them off and sure they want to keep working and some times I have to get rough with them to get them off!! But after a few times they start looking for that comand witch is looking for that direction!!!! Heck if you look in I post a an picture of an EMU I took Ike just if I needed him he would have done what I ask him even though he has never seen a turkey like that!! His daddy Rambo would help me gather up baby game chicks in the brush people would just laugh he would catch them and bring them to me and never killed one but only on the days I ask him to!!He ran loose and never bothered them until I went to catch them!!!
