The long range catch dog

I have too have corrected some of those problems. I really don't mind a hard headed animal. Hard headed and stupid are lethal for them. It's very true that timing is a big part of it too. The last three catch dogs I had before the 2 young dogs I'm hunting now were all the same dog in different wrappers. If a hog broke across the open field I could send them and call them back. If they got to a hog they were running down they would ham him and as soon as it stopped or squatted they were eared up and hard. I have had trouble trying to tie hogs because they were licking my face while I was trying to tie. All I had to do was tell them caught hog and it was a done deal. They didn't have to be tied back. They stayed with me off leash until I said go. They were always thinking and always 2 steps ahead of the game. I actually directed Hondo to the exact hog I wanted out of a stinger that came across an open field one day. I sent him and he took the angle on them. I called his name and checked him off one hog at a time until he had the angle on the one I wanted. It's one of the coolest things I've ever done with a dog. When they caught, they were chest to the ground and butt up and keeping those front feet out of the way of the hogs mouth and rolling that inside shoulder to pull the hogs head down.They could adapt to every situation while going in and a miss was almost unheard of. Sit down, shut up, and listen for the next bay was their way and it allowed them to recover and be ready for hog after hog. Those are my kind of brains and it didn't take long to teach them anything. They lived for their job but were smart enough to know if they went about it right we could hurry up and get another one. Those dogs that I've had to break from the excitable stuff were never as fun as the layed back thinkers. I love drive and want to. It's the first thing anything has to have to be good at a task. Your dogs are driven and hard headed but I think you hit the nail on the head when you said they also had the desire to please you. That to me is it in a nut shell.

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