I don't think you get it .
Actually...I get it alot more than you think, have had top comp. coon,Sq and rabbit dogs and do very much get it. Problem is I want the best with natural abillity and I DON'T have the extra time for all the little training exercises. I want the best, natural dog I can get that I don't have to baby or coax along. I want to hunt with them, not play.
So..if you raise a few pups from a litter...you don't do anything at all until they are old enough to hunt?
If the rule is...even out of jam up sire and dam, all pups won't make dogs....haven't you wasted a lot of time or at least feed money on the pups that don't make?
A few simple runs will let you select the pups that show that natural talent.
I believe that's what Roberts getting at...that's what I think anyway.
I will say I respectfully disagree Kevin, a few simple traing excersizes will show you which pups want to bark at hog in a box (or in a pen) I won't speak for Bryant, but im not after a dog who will bark at a hog real fast and loud. It's just different styles is all, but barking at a hog doesn't show me who's gonna hunt, just who wants to play the current game your askin them to play.
I personally figure, if baypens and training exercises made (or showed) good dogs, then all the youngns on here who are always asking to buy pigs and constantly foolilng with 8 week old puppies and hog drag, shoats and so on would have the top notch dogs around. more often than not, that's not the case.
Yeah, our way may "waste" some feed, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm only getting pups from people who's dogs are much much much better than mine, so if the pup doesn't grow out to be as good as their top dogs, it'll still have a great chance of being good to me.
(Along with that, that is the reason I actual real cull. If even I think they ain't up to snuff, I don't want anybody else to have them to breed up dogs who may end up better than mine, AND the types of guys who I get pups from expect me to live by the gentlemanly ways.)
