Shoot, tons of using dogs have more than one job. People all over work cows and hogs with the same dogs. I scold mine for messing with cows but any time I need them to find a cow for the neighbor I have at least one who I can talk into it! Lol
Heck I've got a pup right now who can tree squirrels and cats, go fimd the woods cattle behind the house and pester them, bay the penned hog, and will flat out go hunt a hog when I put him in a Lil sign. Heck, ce Friday morning I'm takin him to my parents house to catch a trap wise armadillo! A good cur dog shoud at least try anything you tell them too.
Now a hound on the other hand, has a more rigid mind. Once they learn what their after, you'd be harder pressed to convince them to go to something else, but heck they can probably do it very well too. From what I've read lionandboarhunter can use his dogs on hogs or cats equally effectively. So it's probably got a lot to do with the man handling the dog!
x2...also got to bring up the mutts...as a kid almost all my hunting dogs were mutts and I hunted them most every day even if it was a 1 hr run and sometimes twice if I could get away with it...but they hunted anything I put them on and did a good job at it...hand signals and voice commands, they got er done...keeping the neighbors hogs out of our fields included...
