My husband and I watched the video together and then I told him that he should bring them along to show them how it is really done, needless to say I can't post his response
I will say that they weren't worried about getting their dogs wrecked for three major(IMO) reasons that I observed:
(1) they went over an hour's walk away w/o a catch dog but remembered the camera
(2) their bay dogs were "shredded" (their words not mine) but once the CD got there they still wanted to wait for him to come up the ditch therefore not backing up their dogs.
(3) the only "armor" I seen on their CD was a cut collar
When you hear "big no eared hog in a ditch" I'm thinking crap its chest deep, dogs are swimming and he is fixing to wreck what ever is in the ditch with him...that is a little different than that hog standing belly deep in water, it shouldnt have posed any problem for them or their dogs if they werent hesitant about getting in the ditch.
We personally know a man that drowned a hog by himself as a few "hunters" (one being his son-in-law I believe) stood on the ditch bank watching his dogs get wrecked before he got there to see what was going on (he's had 2 knee replacements in both legs so it takes him a little longer than the spring chickens)....the hog was about 250 (typo) with 3" of teeth, between him and his dogs they sealed the deal...and that is a TRUE STORY.
There are a lot of trials and tribulations when hunting down here in FL from people not knowing what they are doing to not being able to handle their dogs and this just flat out has NO business on the internet or put into mass distribution. IMO
