Catahoula vs Black mouth

back in the early 1980's and 1990s there seemed to be a high ratio of bmc and Catahoula that didn't have the hunt I wanted...there were others that felt the same way...it is kind of like when one has a bad experience with a certain model of pick up a few times...you tend to stay away from them...having said that I have seen some that had the best of both worlds such as hunt and stopping and keeping a hog bayed without pressuring them to break bay...

I am sure that there are many dogs now that can do both on account their are many more hog hunters today that use them...

you are right about the aggression with some of the dogs. the mt curs I used to breed and keep I had to keep an eye on them when loose in the back yard or in the dog box...but they had the ability to find a hog rather quickly and had lots of hunt and were fairly good at stopping a hog...I like dogs of that nature as well...kind of like a race horse...they are a little more trouble to keep but well worth the effort...

my theory as well as others who felt the same way felt like many cow dogs in our area with the smaller ranches used cow dogs that did not have to find cattle but only to help gather and drive them...and those cow dogs that wanted to range out probably were culled on account they would get over to another ranch and get in trouble for baying another mans cows...so it doesn't take a rocket scientist to start thing what we were thinking...so that is why I said if the cow dog is also bred to hunt then it is possible to have an excellent hog dog...

I like mt curs but so many are now bred for squirrel hunting and so many are bred smaller with the short ear and are not proven to run a track for a long ways...one must look long and hard to find a good one any more for a hog dog and that is why I looked towards the plott hound...my next cross will be mt cur but I believe I have captured some of the good plott traits and hope to add a little more catch to my dogs with that shot of pit...

I reckon in west texas where you have lots and lots of real estate long range cow dogs that can trail and wind cows are needed and that there are the same traits needed for a hog dog...