What kind of dogs are these pups and how old are they? Kinda sounds like they are too young or too inexperienced to honor the other dogs. What happens if you leave them in the dog box where they can hear your older hog dogs baying a hog, do they know to go to the bay up or do they just sit in the dogbox if they can not hear the hog bayed up?? Do you ever hunt horseback or muleback, if you can ride to the dogs the young dogs will learn faster that there is a hog bay at the other end even if they dont know to track or honor another dog baying yet. I think you have young dogs that dont know yet how to trail up and go find the older hog dogs that might be on a silent hog track or out of hearing, is this what you are asking??? Running a silent dog with any type of open or semi open dog will eventually make it be open or semi open. Some like it some dont, some dont understand that just because a hound is open it does not make it slow, the trick is to have fast slashing open hounds that run heads up like foxhounds, but a lot of cur people think hounds bable and scare off the hogs, yes, a cull hound babbles and does let hogs let away, but that is a cull hound in the first place. Some of the best blackmouth curs and catahoulas I ever owned or hunted with back in the day were hunted with and were started with Running walker hounds that ran heads up and were able to close the gap after striking trailing and jumping a hog. These dogs seperately would not hardly open at all but when my pard with the running walker hog dogs came they all would give mouth, most silent cur dog type hog hunters today alas never grasp the difference between a good fast heads up foxhound solid broke pack and a pack of cur dogs, of course with tons of hogs everywhere and smaller places they dont work for a lot of people. Guess it works for some and not for others.
tKnightstockerterrier,
you just described how a good cur dog is supposed to hunt...cut and slash with head up to find the hot end of the tracks...with the mindset to catch the game
