Starting a catch dog

this may sound a little gruff but i'll tell you how I have done it and it has worked for me everytime. We usually have a good 225+ boar in a bay pen, all I have ever done is put 1 or 2 bay dogs in the pen and let the bulldog watch em to get him hyped up, I generally let the dogs work for a few minutes then I throw the bulldog in the pen and either he catches or he doesn't. I have had a couple bulldogs that have never seen a hog before and the first time I put em in the pen they sat back and bayed lol........easy to fix.........pull the bulldog outta the pen and let the bay dogs work the hog into a corner then I simply just pick up the bulldog and drop him right on top of the hog.......this has worked like a charm for me every time lol........the first time I did it to my old red bulldog "buck" the boar smoked him then took off, by the time that pig got turned around on at the other side of the pen ol buck dropped the hammer and the rest was history........it took less than 15 minutes for that ol dog to develop a pure hatred for a hog and from that day on he would lock like an 85lb vise.

Once I know that a bulldog will catch in a pen I start totin em to the woods and I will walk to em to the bay a few times until I know that they know what their job is, within two months of hunting with buck I no longer needed a lead, he would walk beside me without a care in the world until we got 50-100yds from the bay then it was game time....

hope this helps you some