Few thoughts on the cow dog/hog dog correlation....

Ninja I hate to disagree with you but you stated that a cow bred cur will make an excellent hog dog EVERY time. I don't know if thats true or not. I have had some of my dogs that wouldn't mess with a hog but were absolutely crazy over a cow. I had one called Snoop that was an aunt to my Rock and Dixie dogs, she was a littermate sister to their mother. You could ride her through palmettos full of hogs, send her and when you found her bayed she was on cows. She would go past hogs looking for cows. She was just that way from a pup, I never had to get after her to leave hogs alone.
Now, if I had broken her off cattle, would she have done that well on hogs??? Well, lets just say I didn't want to mess up a good thing to find out!! She was the best cow dog I ever owned and a lot of local cowboys really liked her too.