How do you know you have a good catch dog?

Old man that is exactly what I mean when I talk about a catch dog being able to think on their feet. People say they don’t want a dog that will grab anything but the ear, they will fill them for it. My old family of bull dogs were ear minded and when you got to a caught hog they were on the ear. But, I have sent them to open field hogs and they would ham them until the hog squared to turn and then they would move to the ear. My AB that I use now is ear minded. He won’t catch anything but ear. Just like you said, he will run to the head and the hogs will hit the breaks causing a fly by or make a hard turn and he has to catch up again. He has to run them a lot further than he would if he would stop them and then move to the ear. It’s one of the things I would change about him.

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