Brute not to be rude or anything but just opinion, do you think that because you put your dogs in a bay pen so much cause them to be so short range?
Not all my dogs go in a bay pin that much... just some. We have dogs that hunt close, a couple that will disappear, some that will go with a hogs and never stop, some that you can call off, some that wind off the hood and run with their noses up, some run with noses to the ground. They all get raised the exact same way. The ones that want to go far go far, the ones that want to stay close stay close. Different dogs hunt different.
To say that working all dogs in a bay pin will make them short distance is pretty bold because all dogs are different. My opinion is if the dog REALLY wants to hunt... there is nothing you can do short of injuring them to slow them down. I will also say that the dogs that are easily effected by little stuff like that were weak from the start.
That is just my limited, and humble opinion. I totally understand what yall are saying about them not wanting to hunt because you are always putting hogs right there in front of them.. and it makes sense.. and I could see where is may effect some dogs.
BUT, has any one actually ruined a dogs by doing it? Any first hand experience here? Was it actually woking the dog in the pin too much that caused it or did some thing else stupid happen that the dog stopped hunting?
Lots of factors and I have never been one to listen to people tell me you can't do some thing because it didn't work for so-and-so.
Just a thought. Again, I think we are making it harder than it seems. We all catch hogs so why does it matter, RIGHT?
Yall have made me curious now. We really need a hog hutning mythbusters crew.
