After watching that and seeing there is a thesis on "learned" ability can be passed on genetically, I read your post a while back about that Rueben and it got me to thinking a lot about this, chemical responses are what's responsible for our bodily actions, there's a chemical response that "drives" dogs to want to run game, whether it be a bulldog getting that eye when's something's got him excited or a coon hound treeing so hard he's slobbering at the mouth, or a walker dog going nuts in the box because it hears other dogs running, all those reactions are the responses of some chemical responses going on inside him that they have no control over, all they know is that they want what's in front of them, sort of like high their getting, so if a gyp is with pups and she's exposed to whatever makes her go nuts and get this "high" then, theoretically these pups should be getting the same feelings being as they are still apart of the mother, no different than a crack fiend giving birth, it's not the child's fault but their born an addict of whatever chemical response their mother was, no different here In dogs, and if maintained and uninterrupted that urge to find what ever cause those good feelings will continue with the animal its entire life, this is really a complex subject that has really shaken the way I've always seen things when it came to dog breedings.
I like how you said that Goose87...it is also good for humans....probably will take us to a higher level some day...
liefalwepon...nice looking pups...they are probably going to make some awesome hog dogs...that is the size of mnt cur I like...do the parents open much?
Decker...it is hard to say what should be your next step...If I were trying to reproduce one dog the first thing I would do is examine his bloodline...does he come from a long line of good dogs or was his dam and sire excellent hog dogs, scatter bred etc...
