Slow motion

The way both of you catch hogs and have for years, I’m sure your dogs would be safe!

I kinda started doing it by accident. I’m not the most tech savvy and it honestly wasn’t something I really thought about doing until I actually saw my Loki dog do something that was obvious. I slow rolled it back to confirm my eyes weren’t lying to me and they weren’t. It was a miss and a cutting all in one that didn’t look like it should’ve been. I got to going back after that and doing it with other vids and then really got to paying attention at the bay when I sent him. Like Cajunl said, I understood the dominance thing, I just never thought about that overwhelming dominance aspect being the reason for him getting cut or missing. I need him to adjust, heck he needs himself to adjust. With this heat and his AB breathing, having to try and run hogs down or multiple attempts at catching them isn’t in his favor. He won’t grad one in the ham to turn it if he’s running it down. He will run to the head and that leads to the hog either hitting the breaks and him doing a fly by or the hog bolt 90* away from him. Either way he has to run them down again. I like a dog that will ham one and move to the ear as soon as it stops. In typing all this it kinda sounds like high expectations but I’ve seen too many do it so I know it’s possible. Plus the fact that he’s really intelligent and athletic. Y’all can call BS on this story if ya want to but I’m gonna tell it anyway. Sent him to a bay from about 30 feet away. The hog was back up against a wad of briars at the base of a big post oak and facing away from us. Right as you get to this oak and briars there is a wet season ditch that’s about 2 1/2 foot wide. Just as Loki going airborne to jump it the hog decided to break and bolt right across in front of Loki. Momentum would’ve carried him past the hog moving across his face but he had the ability to think and reached out with his front right foot to push off the tree and change his direction. He was on the left side and he snagged the hog. Wasn’t but 150+ pounds but he did it. That to was just really impressive. So why can’t he think to catch that right ear if it’s an easy open shot instead of crossing the hog to go for the left one? I know this is reasoning and dogs “don’t reason” they say. But to me it’s the same adjustment as understanding he had to change direction to make the play.

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