Message #516091

[bootheel]

Not sure if I have ended up with a natural catch YBM gyp or not. Picked her up about a month ago, let her stay in the back yard for a week or two to learn some manners from momma's dog (1/2 Dogo, 1/2 Lacy) and get some socialization, this pup is 8 months old. I've included her in my liver drags with my 3 month old black/tan x bmc pups. She did alright the second and third time, but acted like she was bored. So today I put ole spot (shoat) in his protection cage and turned 1 pup and yeller gyp loose. no interest til I unleashed ole Sam that I bought from Doug Mason, and my 1/2 Dogo x 1/2 bmc TIG and they went to work baying up a storm. The pups came back and got in on the bay and was really getting into it. I tied Tig up (catch dog) up so he wouldn't catch and kill when i release ole spot.As soon as I did the race was on. Sam got to him first and bayed spot up at about 100 yds,the YBMC gyp stayed with spot like glue, baying tight also, then all of a sudden she caught an ear and locked down. Yal know how things  can get fast in a hurry, When Sam saw that  she was catching he decided to help, so he started catching on the other side. So I grabbed sam and tied him to a mesquite and went back to the scrap. Everytime I would just about get the pig tied, yeller gyp would come in for another bite. By this time I was wore out and let the pig loose hoping the gyp would just lay down with an ear and wear the shoat down, not a chance! They both took off running side by side with ear in mouth. I followed them for a couple hundred yards then lost sight, ( ima thinkin this wouldve been a good time for a tracking system!) I get back to the other dogs and get them back to the kennels and on water. Meanwhile my wife is running the roads surrounding our place, bout a 6 mile block, and I head back a foot in the general direction I last saw them, go about another mile and back. My wife calls and said she found them a mile further west than where I had just walked on the side of the road. yella gyp still had an ear in her mouth, shoat was wore slap out, and gyp acted like it was a walk in the park! Seems like this little gal has a surprise for me everytime I take her out for some basic track/find/bay training. I have to admit that this was my first rodeo on a deal like this. She showed me that shes got plenty of grit, and doesn't have any quit in her and she'll dang sure catch and lock down. Just hope when the time comes where she has to find her own pig instead of picking on ole spot, she'll be just as aggressive but will bay a little looser and bark so I can find her. and if she does catch, she learn to set back instead of running along side of the pork!