Your pack is like a football team. Every part of that team has a very important job. Be it the strike dog finding and baying the hog, to the catchdog, catching the hog!
The price of my bulldog increases dramatically when I really need him!! Lol.. Most times I do not need him because my dogs will catch what the can handle by themselves, and if I have 2 on the ground, they will catch 99 percent of the hogs! It's the 1 percent when you need that Kraken that you will relies a good bulldog is as valuable as your best strike dog!!
I agree...I have used that same analogy about the pack and football team...in my mind a good cur dog should be like the middle linebacker of the football team...not the fastest or strongest or quickest but respectably strong, fast and quick...
The catch dog is like the best defensive lineman on the football team...
Gritty to rough dogs may act like great catch dogs some of the time but in some situations they will back up and bay...
