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hoghunter71409
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« on: January 11, 2014, 03:02:13 pm » |
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My advice is let the pup run free as long as you can. Let them learn to chase cats, squirrel, and everything else on their own. I like to let mine bays cows in open pastures and get them in and around water early. Get them about 8 or 9 months old and let them bay a good sow in a pen a couple times. At about 1 yr, I start running them with older dogs but I am careful as to what hog I put them out on. They don't need to see a rank boar in the woods their first time out.
I think too many people start pups too young in a pen and then at 1 year old they want to know why the dog don't hunt but it will bay in a pen. Anydog can bark at a hog in a pen. Let pups learn the woods early and let them trash a little. There is time to break them off trash later. If pup not doing anything by 1.5 yrs, they don't stay with me.
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