Message #474662

[Shotgun66]

Mr. Whitten,
 I'll provide you a quick recap of Jack's Hog Hunting career. I know this because he belongs to my good friend and hunting partner CuJo 72. He is a key part of our pack today and helps us catch quite a few hogs. He is well cared for and gets to hunt on a regular basis. He is a gritty help dog. Bays good and will catch a 150 lb hog by himself. Although he looks houndy, he works more like the catahoulas I have hunted with. Jack possesses certain traits that indicate he probably has a few good dogs in his family history. We are not breeders and Jack himself is not breeding material, therefore he has been castrated. 
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 Jack has taught us quite a few lessons about hog hunting. We were new to hog hunting when we got Jack and quite frankly probably didn't do him any favors. As a young dog, Jack showed glimpses of being a strike dog. He didn't hunt particularly hard but if you put him in decent sign, he would find and bay his own hog and actually do it in style. He was inconsistent in regards to how much effort he put out when hunting. To put it mildly, I'll say he was "gamey" as a young dog with a particular fondness for small black and white critters that smell bad. We figured out that we were asking too much of a young unfinished dog. We acquired some finished strike dogs and put them with Jack and it has worked well for us. He busted a few bays early on but over the past 1.5 years, he has learned when to bay and when to catch. I hope you appreciate the update as much as we appreciate Jack's contributions to our hog hunting efforts.