Pups and/or Prospects

I agree that I started her a little young. I have seen puppies get wrecked and I try to avoid it when I can. I lead her to the bay when she was starting and only cut her loose on select hogs. I didnt let her run out with the other dogs until she was around 8 months old. She was getting hunted 2 and 3 times a week and had her legs under her pretty good at 8 months. She got real catchy around 10 months old and was strapping it on some pretty big hogs until she got a little cut one day. She still catches but rarely gets cut and only after I show up at that. The 2 times she has been cut were not bad at all.
She is getting very selective of when and were she catches and it seems to be working for her.
Ive carried her all by her lonesome a few times just to get a better look at her and she has performed better than I could expect at her age and found hogs.
Last month I took her to a place and poked around until I walked up on some sign. She was busy as heck hunting so I just sat right down in the middle of it and let her work. After 23 minutes with her being gone I was wondering if she was going to get them figured out and then she bayed.
Well booger barked I guess. Id never heard her opening bark sound like it did that day. Kind of like a sick hound and then she bayed pretty good but it wasn't intense as her barking usually is.
I only had about 500 yards to get to her so it didn't take me to long. I slipped in on her to see that she was staying about 20 to 25 yards back and working in a half circle, baying more than 15 good hogs!
I aint seen that in a wile! I guess thats why she was barking at them like she was. A lot of hogs and no grown ups to give her any encouragement.

Im still waiting for that nose she has bread into her to show up more but I haven't been this excited about a prospect in over 10 years.
Thats probably why I have done a few things with her against my better judgment.

You know crackerc? Best dogs Ive ever owned can be listed in your color order! #1 red #2 yellow, #3 everything else. lol