Trash breaking dogs ?

With all due respect . . . armadillos don't smell like hogs and goats don't smell like deer. There are studies being conducted in Sweden, now . . where one dog is trained to track one particular wolf or bear and will cold trail this particular bear across the much hotter track of another bear or other bears. They can tell the difference down to one member of a species, differentiating him from his own kind . . . so a dog does not mistake a goat for a deer.

Very seldom does a deer run like a hog. If you know what to listen for you can tell when an open trailing dog is running off game.

Also, and this is only from my own experience . . a dog bred for certain game, especially dangerous, fighting game like bear or hogs . . . will put much more effort into running that type of game. My young dogs will definitely bump and/or run trash but seldom do it with as much gusto. If one prefers to take off game, refuses to accept correction or ever quits the target game to run trash . . he is asking to be excused from your program. Regardless of the speed or nose or other attributes of a dog in your pack . . if he can't be broke . . get rid of him as soon as possible. And never breed them as they certainly reproduce themselves as often as not.

For those folks breeding dogs without hunting backgrounds/families . . . good luck. How long do you think it would take to breed stock or game sense into bird dogs and Great Danes, etc . . to the point where your preference overcomes their natural instincts?