Track dogs VS Cast dogs

This is a good thread bud.

My opinion is much the same as the Oldman’s. I also agree that hunt can’t be put in them but you can dial it back. Track minded is “usually” something that hounds or dogs with hound influence take to a little more natural. Of course non-hounds can do it and if they are started that way would probably do it just as a second nature. My dogs carry a hound influence. One of my mature dogs is going to take the first thing he smells and try his best to put a hog at the end of it. My other one will leave a cold track alone to search for a hotter one, but if she doesn’t find one in given period of time, she will go back and grub it. Both have their pluses and minuses. Having one of each works in my favor and it’s actually fun to watch when he’s grubbing something she left alone. I like to see which one will get bayed first. If you want to be able to cast dogs then keep breeding cast dogs and convert however many you want into track dogs. I recommend this route because you could very easily lose or breed away from dogs that cast/hunt because it’s no longer a trait you’re focused on. All of a sudden one day you have the same dogs on paper as the current dogs but they no longer perform the same because you quit placing emphasis on as many characteristics.

I’m curious, is it your belief that you are losing cast dogs because they are too far away for you to get to them in a reasonable amount of time or what is your reasoning?

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