I call it a dog with stick but most call it bottom. dogs that don't have the bottom need the track to be hot or they need to see the hog on a regular basis. If the going is rough these dogs give it up. If the hog gets in a thick briar patch the dogs that lack bottom will give it up and look elsewhere. I like a dog that sticks and does all it can to stick with the track and put a hog at the other end of those tracks. Some of these dogs will die of heat exhaustion because of stick or bottom. That is my interpretation of bottom...
TexasHogDogs,
I like the bottom I just described above but it is not feasible anymore. Like you said...these dogs will get us in trouble...Just like we said on another thread...need to breed dogs with more stopping power and I suspect it will breed out some of that stick to a track no matter what kind of dog. I mean the dog will lose some of that bottom but hopefully we can catch hogs without having to go five miles in the thick stuff...
