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Author Topic: what is it you are wanting in a "catch dog"  (Read 2342 times)
Hunt the Grunt
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« on: December 06, 2013, 09:21:51 am »

To describe what I want in a catch dog, I'll describe the one I have now and then list his faults. The one I have now is about 60-65lbs, clean catching, athletic, ear every time, leads good for me, fairly well for others, he won't pick a fight with another dog, he's not one to fly in to a bay and slam a hog like my last cd. I love the style he has, he'll get to the bay quick, but when he gets there he will slow down just enough to see the ear good, almost like a studder step and then he catches. He isn't hesitant or anything like that, he just makes sure he can grab an ear instead of flying in catching blindly. Once I throw the hog and we get him off he doesn't go nuts like some dogs but he won't calmly take a picture with one either lol. I don't mind that and I don't won't him coming off by voice command either (previous bad experience with different dogs). What I consider his fault is that if the bay breaks before he gets there he will sometimes run with the bay dogs until they stop him again and will even take his own trail sometimes. I like my catchdogs to come back if the bay breaks. I can't really fault him for doing what he is supposed to do which is catch the hog but I'd rather him come back until the bay dogs stop him instead of running the hog and catching it 1/2 a mile or better away from me. I would rather him run it a couple hundred yards and if he hasn't caught by then he needs to come back. Sometimes I can call him back, but sometimes he'll keep on truckin. He also don't like to be worked on when cut. Thats the biggest problem I have with him. He absolutely hates any type of spray. He doesn't like stitches and staples but I can normally put them in without too much of a problem, but you pull out some blue kote or iodine and he's tucking his tail and trying his best to get away.
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