Alligator dogs that pile a hog on sight with company are not near as hard to find as dogs that will find hogs and bay them until the catch dogs get there. Its been my experience that a guy can catch a ton of hogs with rough dogs as long as they don't run out of the country and catch a bad boar a couple miles from you. Thats when the damage is done because it takes a long time to get to your dogs. I'll stick with bay-dogs and bottom! Catchdogs are not that much trouble to lead and I can hold the fight off until I get there. This RCD rage over the last 10 years is nothing more than a "cop-out" style of hunting by guys that got tired of their dogs quitting and coming back in 10 minutes. Its easier to grab them than it is to bay them because if they break you probably won't ever see the hog again. I could care less if I catch the hog, I want to see my dogs preform good dogwork, we just got thru watching 5 mutts and a fat bulldog "catch a hog", WOW, thats not that impressive when you think about it. To each his own and everyone's ideal of "good dogwork" is different but I would have a hard time calling them dogs in that video "hog dogs" even tho they obviously had one caught.
some folks like a pack of dogs that will catch in 3/8th of a mile or quit and come back and try another hog...most of those type of dogs are culls to me...they usually don't have the nose to take a track unless it is smoking hot...
