Evaluating a young dogs "bottom"

Randy, you are correct all things have their place, I am not talking about a dog that quits something in a scenario as you described, I too would call that a cull in most situations.

We have to get hogs started and shut down or go find another hog in the area but don't trail a hog ten miles, don't stick with a runner ten miles.
Thats the kind of Bottom I am not interested in having in a dog.
There will be other hogs closer and it may please me to think my dogs may have been on that same hog a really long time but in reality I am big enough to own up that most likely they started another one that they could bay and hold, and thats fine by me as long as they are producing hogs then I am happy they are doing their job. Starting hogs and not producing that ain't gonna make momma happy and hen momma ain't happy well ain't nobody gonna be happy. It happens to everybody every now and then, I am not gonna feed dogs that don't earn their keep either