Can he run or not?

Im not real sure how to answer- but I going to side with Oconee and here is why. I've had two pretty decent catch dogs over the past few years, guess I've been lucky, I don't know. The dogo I have now goes about 80 lbs; nothing real big. He is not flashy in any way. He actually runs at a pretty good pace to a bay and then pauses...then he simply catch on the ear. He doesn't slam a hog, he doesn't walk or sprint to a bay- he just "gets the job done". Ive had him on some pretty good hogs, some boars and some barrs, the biggest going up to about 325 (the second hog he ever saw). I have seen a hog yet that he did handle pretty easily. Ive watched him hold a couple hogs and he just ruens with the hog. Ive seen him go backwards on a hog turning into him and Ive seen him move forward on a hog turning away from him. Maybe he just hasn't met one of these "run off" hogs yet, but if I was a betting man, I would bet that a hog wont run off with him.

Ive been doing this long enough to know that nobody has "seen it all" and as soon as you think something wont happen it will. As we talked about on another post, a man's pride is hard for a dog to live up to. The next hog may very well run off with my dog, but I don't think so. Im not going to say if there are "run off" hogs are not, but I am going to venture out a say that a really good catch dog that knows what he or she is doing, is probably not going to be ran off with.

Like I said, I may be wrong, but, if hogs were running off with my dogs more than once or twice, I think I may start looking for a different catchdog, because it is not suppose to happen that way.