Thanks for all the feed back guys. I ask because I normally just run my 2 farm dogs that will find a pig if it's close but won't go hunt for 1 and I just recently got another puppy that I'd actually like to get out and hunt and I don't want to ruin him like I did the others just like L.H. said. This cur pup is 4 months old and has seen pigs when I load them from a trap to trailer and always barks his butt off but other than that I've only worked with him on basic stuff like riding in the ranger and so on.
Without having a solid lead dog to kind of teach him the ropes how can you work on getting a young dog to range out and hunt on his own?
If them other two dogs are standing around and not hunting don't let them young dogs stand around with them. don't turn them all loose and let them run back and forth all playing put them back in the box if they don't wanna hunt. I don't know how you hunt but I have a box on my four wheeler and their either gone hunting or in that box. And they will get use to when they get out of the box its time to hunt. Ride them in a box until you see some sign you know they can smell and put them on it and if they don't do anything back in the box they will get use to when they come out of the box its time to get gone. And this is where genetics comes in also. I think a dog needs to be bred with a little want to, to get one that picks up natural
