Message #80863

[uglydog]

One mans junk is another mans treasure........... Perception of what a good dog is, well now you got another 4 page thread to go on and on and on, with.

You guys that think that a mutt can find, bay and catch hogs is a good dog well more power to you. Adventually you will figure out it takes a dog with the traits to complete the jobs to be called a hog dog.

A friend of mine has  dog that he picked up, smart little dog with a good nose will do anything his owner asks him to do, finds a hog, bays a hog, bloodtrails and recovers wounded animals, stupid pet tricks and every thing else. However when the going gets tough, at the end of the day he is a good  "dog" but he does not have what it takes to stay with it when the going gets tough like a good bred cur. If weekends in the woods with your buddies chasing a few hogs here and there, is all you ask of a dog then you will be satisfied with just a dog. But if you want a dog to be more and stay when the going gets tough, and the hogs are hard to find, hard o stop, and run like crazy, you are gonna need a little more "bloodline" to get the job done. When you dog has to be smart enough to know when to follow his nose on the ground and when to pick it up and run with the wind, cause the hog is leaving out,m you are gonna need some bloodlines and when you get tired of walking/directing and looking for the sign that the dog could have been looking for on its own, well I guess you can figure out what I am fixing to finish that with too.

If you are talking about getting 10 pitbulls from the pound and 9 of the 10 slammed the hog well then they are just pit bulls and nothing exceptional about that. You are comparing apples to oranges here.

That is nice of you to give 10 dogs a chance to have a job, I will give you credit there. Thanks for doing so, but it is not the same as what is being discussed.