loosing or quitting ?

[ole shep]

Most days here it's 80 or better.

I did get me a lion dog .I call her Big Game. She is a plott x . I would consider selling her.

[halfbreed]

i've got a runnin walker bred dog [little tree blood in her not much ]  she come outta idaho big game dogs . i don't use her on hogs mostly b-cats and yoates and stuff . she'll run a hog but wide open . and you gotta make shure you have a full tank of gas when you decide to turn her out on anything . cause if she hits a yoate track first she's gone .   i never did trash break her cause i like to have at least one dog to run whatever i put her on . she will even get you a five pound possum    but anyway thats the runnin blood i put in my catahoulas .

[Bama36502]

One thing i've noticed over the summer is a group a dogs running one, then at one point in the race just fanning out and falling apart. Like the hog disappeared in thin air... seen it several times this summer. We just scratched our heads and figured it was because of the super dry conditions?

Other times, the hog will hit a big thicket, round around in it for an hour or two in circles... then sneak out the back door. The Garmin screen looks like a crackhead with an etch-a-sketch. By the time the dogs line it out, that hog is usually in the next county.

I guess you could call that a loose? Cause it sure ain't from lack of bottom.

x2.
Had that happen quit a few times this summer.

[Reuben]

There is a big difference between a dog that wants to run a hog and stop a hog. Not saying they have to catch it just pinch here and bite there. I cant stand a rough dog but love a gritty dog.

x2...Good comments there Casey...


My first interpretation of a dog that wants to run a hog is a dog that lacks the grit to stop a hog and will not put teeth on one...I hate that kind of dog.

The other kind of dog that wants to run a hog is a rough dog that wants to fight the hog and does not have that natural inclination to stop it...this dog breaks bays and this dog wants to kill the hog but usually is good for breaking the bay as previously mentioned. We know that a 50 pound cur is not going to kill a hog but that seems to be this type of dogs mentality.

A gritty dog you are talking about I assume is one that puts enough pressure to stop one and then is content to back up and bay if the hog does not run...

Sounds easy but 1 or 2 extra gritty dogs can do the stopping very well on a big boar but 3 or more of the same type and they will push it a while until they can all get on him in an open area where the dogs can maneuver...

this has been the area that makes me want to pull out what little hair I have left...

If you would please break it down and explain your views on your comment that I quoted...