as you can see I borrowed this from the post above from Silverton...
A hog dog needs to:
Hunt deep
Run a track and wind hogs
Have the drive to bunch hogs or stick with one until stopped and bayed.
Stand back and bay without intimidating the hogs
Bite any hog that leaves the herd and stay hooked no matter what untill that hog returns to the herd or is caught
Needs to understand a settled bay and loosen upmust be heat tolerant with a lot of drive and go
Must understand pressure and never break a set of bayed hogs by biting in the herd
That is more or less the perfect hog dog in my book. As you can see the traits are similar but the list is shorter for the hog dog.
I know of 2 brothers that have a line of curs that hunt well and they use these same hog dogs to work and catch cattle. I hear that their dogs are exactly what Silverton describes as to what a good cow dog should be...It is my belief that to have dogs that work equally well on both hog and cattle must be worked on a regular basis to get the best results and of course must have the breeding or at least have a proven dog.
This pretty much should answer the question... "Hog dog Culls Or Cowdog Gold"? If it is a cull for a hog dog then it should be a cull for a cow dog. and visa versaHowever, I would buy a hog dog pup from a long line of good hog dogs, and, if I wanted a good cow dog prospect I would buy a pup from a long line of proven cow dog stock of my liking...
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