Starting Pups

I agree with SkoalBandett about the age of the pups and when to put them in the woods with old dogs. The two pups I have now will be 6 months old the 20th of this month and they are just that...pups. They are nowhere near ready to go to the big woods and possibly get on a fire breathing dragon.

I have messed with them twice with a small hog, like he showed doing, but other than that I am just letting them be pups for now.

I have seen (and owned one or two) young dogs that got ruined by getting hurt by a bad boar at a young age in the woods. I had one pup get wrecked by a 200 lb boar hog at 8 months old. When she recovered 6-8 weeks later she would bay and even catch hogs up to about 100 lbs or so, but if she found a big hog with a lot of fight, she would quit him. If she hadn't been wrecked I don't feel she would have done that.

You just have to be careful as some pups just can't take those rough hogs until they get a little age on them. I want mine to be around for a while, so I start them slow and let them learn what is going on before I hunt them in the big woods with grown dogs. Hopefully by then they have learned some respect from a big sow or young boar I have shown them.......hopefully!