Catch dogs

Spending time with them is the key thing, if they spend enough time with you and with a little sense they’ll begin to pick up and learn what everything means and how to react and respond, I use to have a little short legged jug headed bulldog that couldn’t pop a grape but never missed a hog, he always ran loose and was around stock his entire life, I never once had any intent on trying to work cattle with him, but by just always being around and learning what my tones and commands and movements meant he eventually turned into a nice sorting pen hand, I never tired to gather cattle with him and he never offered he’d always follow me on horseback but just stayed by my horse, I never hog hunted him off horseback but scolded him one time for helping my cow dog catch a new calf I was tagging, after that he wouldn’t have anything to do with any cattle out in pasture, but in the sorting pen he’s do just as Tdog described and manned gaps, if I needed to send one down the lane past him he eventually learned what “let’er by” meant, unfortunately he was killed one night by a neighbors big mastiff/apbt looking dog, he outweighed Stroker by every bit of 50 lbs and it was a really cold near freezing night when they tied up, found
him dead the next morning between the house and sorting pens, and the neighbors dog was never seen again either...