That’s the very reason I started raising these dogs I have now. I too spent a lot of money buying “good blooded” dogs and the money on gas and feed was aggravating to say the least. I’ve made friends with a couple of gentlemen over the years that lived a long way apart. Both were old enough to be my father or grandfather. Both asked me the same question the days I met them, it was nearly word for word. They asked do you have hog dogs or dogs that bark at a hog. I said I like to think they are hog dogs lol. After the first time I hunted with each guy, they reacted the same way too. They reached out and shook my hand and said young man, I had my doubts about what your dogs were going to be like. Everybody says they have hog dogs and when it’s all said and done they dogs that will bark at hogs. They will bay if you walk them to a hog. If they bay a group they catch one and done. If hog runs hard then they quit 10 minutes later. They said those aren’t hog dogs to me. I myself want a hard hunter that is going to be there start to finish. It wasn’t easy to find it, more lucky than anything really. Mine are by no means the greatest and sure won’t please everyone, but I don’t have to do it for them and I don’t mind feeding them. I don’t think it’s intentional. I don’t think A LOT of people have had the opportunity to hunt with an honest to goodness bad son of a gun. They haven’t had anything to physically judge to know how high the standards can be set. It’s exactly the reason I tell beginners to hunt with as many different people as possible before they get loaded down with dogs. That way they can figure out what good is to them.
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Yep…lots of trash out there…
