I have had dogs and have hunted with dogs that would find and catch. 99% of the time it wasn't a good thing or didn't turn out well.
Also, as Chris said... since when do RCD have to find and catch hogs?
If you use good dogs that catch smart and some good cut gear you shouldn't loose any more dogs than with any other style of hunting. With that said BULLDOGS do not make good running catch dogs as a hole. You get your super stars, but for the most part they dont use there head when holding and find them selves jacked up a tree or worse. Not picking on bulldogs just stateing my exsperence with them. I dont care for holding dogs that have more than 50% or so bull blood in them. To much bull blood and you run into some problems biggest being that they will catch the first hog they come to even if its 10 pounds. I fell a good holding dog should dance like a boxer with both eyes open watching the hog and there suroundings. JMO
This is a very debatable paragraph as a whole in my opinion.
If I remember correctly... it was not long ago that you posted a video of a dog that caught a hog. After there were some very negative reviews of the way the dog was caught you said some thing along the lines of... all you expect a dog to do is hold a hog long enough for you to kill it.
Now you are saying "dog should dance like a boxer with both eyes open watching the hog and there suroundings". That is quite the contradiction from a couple months ago.
There are pleanty of bulldogs out there that would strike hogs if you trained them to and would catch. No matter how well the dog caught, how much vest you put on them... one day that dog would meet its maker. There is always a bigger and badder hog out there.
