Old Dogs and Their Tricks

[TShelly]

We can all agree that it takes a special dog to go track, stop and bay a hog. Some do it betters than others; training, hog tracks and genetics play an integral roll in the development of the great ones.

Sometimes the good ones become great when they start doing stuff out of the ordinary. 


What I wanna know are some tricks or characteristics that y'all have seen truly great hog dogs do?

This will help.. Big E and I were discussing it the other day. So far we have only seen 3 dogs do this. His old dog Roscoe (RIP), and littermates Parvo(RIP) and Girlfriend. Once a hog is struck, run down and bayed/caught. We expect our dogs to roll off and leave, and most of them will immediately. Mostly they just cast wide in ever increasing circles until they find another hog track or we pick them up. Now the three dogs we're talking about would peel off and run the hog track backwards to its original starting point and begin casting(searching for the rest of the group) when these three dogs were in their prime it seemed like if we bayed a group of say 8 hogs. We would catch all 8, or vice versa on smaller groups. These are the only 3 that we have regularly seen do it with a purpose in mind! Sure I've seem puppies and other good dogs run a track backwards, but not usually with the intent of returning to the source and finding the rest of the herd. I would consider all 3 of these to have been super hog dogs.

[sfboarbuster]

That's some brains right there!

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[Wmwendler]

Dad's old Rattler dog would lead a hog to you so you could shoot it.  Allot of times we bay hogs in some very thick briars and vines that mat over and it makes it hard to get in close to the bay, much less see the hog when leaves are on.  When a hog was bayed in something you cannot see into.... seems like he was aware that you could not see the hog to shoot it.  He would also acknowledge you at the bay when you showed up loop by and bump you with his mouth almost like he was gonna bite you but only just bump your leg.  My Paris btch is a daughter of Rattler and she does this also but just loops out to you then back to work.  To lead the hog out, he would ease up to the hog a little too close and the hog would charge out of the vines in your direction and the dog would duck off.  The suprised look of a hog when they see you and throw thier head up as you are drawing a bead on them is priceless.  Makes for a good shot.

Not really a trick but I've seen dogs wind hogs from across the Brazos and swim across to them. 

Waylon

[Wmwendler]

I almost forgot.  Way back when I was a pup...... my dad had a Walker hound named named Doc.  He learned how to drown hogs by climbing onto their head as they swam and sink them.  He was a coon dog in his prior life that trashed on hogs.  I have heard that coons will do this do a dog to try and drown them.  Sometiems I wonder if he learned that trick because a coon tried to do him that way.  It was handy to say the least saved on allot of river crossings.

Waylon

[BigCutters4]

I use to have a bmc named tie one of the things he use to do was when he jumped a hog w another dog and it was real thick and the hog would get to far ahead  he use to come out to the road and run up ahead while listening to the other dogs to gain ground on the hog

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[SCHitemHard]

i had a 8 yr old walker that a guy wanted to get rid of and we noticed that when we would cast out he would run the opposite way from the young dogs. when we finally got a garmin on him he would make a cresent shape and let the young dogs chase the hog and he would come the other way and cut the hog off. didnt believe it till i saw it