The dual purpose dogs definitely exist. I have hunted with them many times but while I've owned and hunted dogs that were very related to them I didn't use mine that way. The reason being is dogs are like kids, even the good ones screw up sometimes. If you are hunting your own property with your cattle on it then I see no problem with it. But if your on someone else's property with their cattle and your bored young dog(s) decides hell there ain't no hog here I'll just bay this set of cows, then things can go south quick. It can happen with a dog that isn't used dually but is usually more tempting for that one that already thinks there's no harm in it. When your 6 or 800 yards away thinking that ole so and so is baying a hog and it's really Ferdinand, it can get western quick fast and in a hurry. I seen it happen first hand more than once. Once they had an 1800-2000# Ferdinand caught. I had a hell of a time getting him legged and thrown by myself. I was the first one in there. These dogs didn't lack handle. They knew what was what, they just had a brain fart and got bored. Or I've seen cattle run at dual purpose dogs like they do so many times. Instead of catching another gear and getting on past them like mine will, they got pissed off and didn't bluff. So then we had cattle bayed. They bunched because they were dog broke but it could've gone from bad to worse if they hadn't been. Plus we were right there when it happened and were able to call the dogs off and it was the other guys cattle. I've also seen dogs that were hog dogs by day and coon dogs by night. It worked well both ways. Super good dog. Heck once I saw him bay a hog that was backed up to a pin oak tree. He would bark a few barks at the hog then look up and bark a few barks. We look up and sure enough he was bayed and treed at the same time one boar hog and one boar coon. I guess he did that on purpose because he didn't want to run back and forth from bush to tree bush to tree so he just moved the boar hog over.
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Couple things that allow us to use these dogs without reportable incident. 1. We don’t run off to hunt any old place, all my landowners back home know what my dogs are, their cattle are dog broke and if we were to bay them it ain’t no harm done. The ranch and all the surrounding here in lee county don’t matter cause it’s been dogged for long long time by the guys that brought me around.(hunting with buddies I make sure they understand my dogs do go both ways, they do handle, I’m not going to be responsible for my dog barking twice and calling out and their so called “broke” dog not calling off) 2 our dogs aren’t the least bit rough on anything that wants to stand Bayed, we ain’t chewing up baby calves or ripping leather off the mans best cow. 3. They handle better than most peoples kids. “Get In here” 1 time most days keeps them high and tight till we send them on whatever we’re aiming to bay. 4 we bay and shoot so there’s never a question what we have bayed. I hear horror stories of people sending catchdogs to a cow bayed and all I know is you got to be dumber than the dogs your using to do that
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