Noah,
To your last question I would say whatever consistently catches and their is no doubt ever in my mind that it may start baying. My only scare in a cur catchdog type would be that in a bad situation with a bad boar in a tight spot and myself or a friend and dog gets ass handed to him and begins to bark instead of engaged. I have been lucky to hunt over the last decade with some guys with great curs that can shut most any hog down under 150. Been plenty of times I brought my CD and been able to just tie him up and leg 150 pound boars or barrs cause a good cur was already locked down. I have also seen at some of the catchdofg comps back in day where a great cur that actually won a competition in past and he had never in his years bayed and I know and have hunted with the owners, o I believe them. It was a head to head major collision and low and behold the cur finally bayed up. It was a big mean boar as well, I thought to myself if we were in a tight place and I was down there I would/ve been screwed. A Bulldog it could happen as well but I think you have a better chance with a great straight pit or AB to continue to battle. I also seen plenty of good mixes of cur bulldog. CWARD, I know some guys in Cleveland that had a Cur x Black lab that was a hell of a catchdog, I wonder if it was same one. They called him Blackie or Black dog but I remember them telling me it was half cur as well. That was a good catchdog. It hink my bulldog beat him though so it may be a differant one if you say this one never lost. Either way it was a good dog and seen him do good in woods as well. Got a little sidetracked but Noah the way you word it about awkward bulldog would make it sound like you may have not hunted with an athletic pit or AB. Some can be very fast and athletic, I can see maybe your point though because on a whole they are not as athletic as curr, I'm just talking about the cream of the crop since you are saying ideal. I don't think anyone's ideal CD would be an awkward chainsaw breathing pit or AB. I would agree that the thing most cur mix catchdogs bring is better heat tolerence typically but the good ones will die before they would ever bark. I also have seen bulldogs that have smarts as well. A good dogman or woman can put some serious obediance on a bulldog sort of like what CWARD described although those seem to be some of the best if you can break one off verbally. I've never even tried that, I've always wanted my CD to have to be broken off but would be great to see a surefire CD you could call off and he would go lay down.
i agree with alot of what he said
