We use the term hog hunting, but actually the folks who use cur dogs are not using a hunting dog, but a stock dog. When you use them to find hogs they are actually working loose/ feral livestock do there should not be that predatory instinct of hunt for the weak. Now of course you will have slip ups with pups but that should get worked out pretty quick. If you were using a pack of curs/ stock dogs on cows that got out and they kept catching out on the calves you would not be happy and that is how I feel about the hogs. I don'tind it every now and then but if they continue to do it after you have given a good effort to break them of it then they are culls even if you are killing the hogs that you catch. The reason curs make the best hog dogs is because hogs are livestock and it takes a stock dog to work them properly especially when you bay up a sounder. They should do nothing but circle and bark to hold them in place and do nothing to break them. If they do break they should stop the lead one and bunch them up again, not catch out on piglets and camp out with them while the rest of the herd gets away. If they do that then they aren't finished and could possibly be culls. That is just my opinion, but I believe a lot of cur dog men would agree with me 100%.
Reuben,
That is the exact method I told PLP to use to see if it would line them out after we hunted on Sunday.
Very well said
