Ever have one of them hunts?

[Hog Dog Mike]

I went hog hunting with a couple of my buddies Saturday morning and thought we were going to have a great day. Found some fresh sign on a high line that led down to a bottom and turned out a young dog.

Biscuit was a really good young dog last year and was finding his own hogs at an early age. No problems at all with him. This year for some reason he has been bad to fight.

Right off of the bat he starts bowing up at every dog we had. Then he picks out the biggest one which is a cur/pit cross named Trav. They get in a serious fight and another dog jumps in. Biscuit is the dog that started it . I pulled Trav my dog back by the collar and Brian (my buddy) was trying to do the same with Biscuit and wound up getting bit clean through his hand.

Then I get Biscuit by both back legs and get him off the ground but he won't let go and Trav won't either. It looked like a couple more might get into it but we hollered at them and they stopped. Brian finally kicked them apart and I stomped Biscuit in the head a few times to teach him some manners.

I dressed Brians hand an we had to take him to the doctor to get this hand looked at. Anyway an idiot dog ruined the entire hunt for everybody involved.

Working this dog over does not seem to do a thing to make him want to quit fighting. I have seen lots of fighting dogs but never seen one that changed overnight like this one. He could be an exceptional dog but is going to get culled if this don't stop.

Anybody ever have a dog like that? Were you able to break them of fighting? Is it better to cut your losses and just cull him now?

[Purebreedcolt]

U can get him cutt it helped me but did not totally solve it.  Just had to watch him was always when we first kicked out and most of the time with a dog he had ridden in the box with. Have two now that can't ride in the box togather but are fine once out hunting

[Bo Pugh]

when he starts fighting you reach down there and catch him by the back leg and have a piece of extention chord about 4 foot long and lay to him, im not talking about 2 or three times ,until he gets loose from you and if its done right he wont think about fighting anymore, i have a bulldog that use to live in the hood he was a fighter before i got him and if a dog growls at him he just lays down

[jesse]

we had one start the same thing after he bread a gyp last week but that eletricity hanging a round that neck made a new dog this weekend good luck

[Amokabs]

We went out for a bit last nite and i took a bulldog for his first time. He did great , a total of 6 dogs. After we'd been out for a couple of hours, i saw him start flagging his tail and wanting to posture over some of the mail dogs, i busted his posterior good everytime he started that crap and he's still young enough that it was enough to change his outlook. Was wanting bad to let him get a mouth on some pork so he'd figure out what the purpose of that long night time walk was. Hoping once he gets on a pig, he'll associate all those dogs showing up at the house as a good thing, a sign its time for pork.
anyway, i'd try shock collar, also some one told me once when it happens, grab him by his back legs once u get broke up, and whirl him around by back legs until u cant whirl no more. If he tries to lite a dog up after that, repeat. Supposedly, it makes em real nauseated and they associate with the fite ing. Never tried it, seems easier to me to put a collar on him and juice him up.
If none of that works, castrate, but if he's locked on to that behavior hard, even castrating wont help
Sorry for long winded post, good luck

[zachW]

i got a red nose pit from a man and woman in arlington who were going to loose there house if they didnt get rid of their dogs, and he is gentle and a all around great dog, but they told me they had his litter mate also and they were both great, but in a one week span the litter mate patrone went from friendly like cuervo, the dog i got, to litterly chasing people in the park trying to eat them, the old boy said it was crazy and happened qucik, they had to get him put down.

[Cull Buck]

I'll say this on dog aggression....try whatever you want to try to break him of it but always be prepared to get rid of him at any time.  I've seen some dogs fixed of their aggression issues and some were lost causes. I'd give it a good try but i'd cut my loses pretty quick. Too many other "good" dogs out there.

[doggintexas]

A buddy of mine had a dog that would fight like that all the time ,but only the same dog every time at first. You could hollar at em and as soon as we would get off the horse's he would quit and take off. He started to do it with other dogs so my buddy took him to the vet and had him cut. He is alot better but every now and then he might get out of line. If that doesn't work cull em!! It aint worth getting a good dog tore up in the box or in the field!

[BULLMASTER]

The best dog I have ever owned was ruined by an aggressive dog,I wouldnt take a chance and will put one down quick for that crap.

[Hog Dog Mike]

Here is another thing about Biscuit. He is old enough for his testicles to have dropped but they have not as yet. I wonder if that could have anything to do with it.

My buddy is going to send him down to some of the young guys we hunt with around Franklin, Tx.. That will be about like going to Marine Corps boot camp. Life as he knows it will  cease to exist. He is going to get the hair run off of him. If he keeps up the fighting he will get to make a trip to the big hog hunt in the sky.

[tnhillbilly]

I will cull one for fighting quicker than anything!   The only kind of aggression that i would tolerate is after the game is dead, and a dog wants to claim it, but I wont put up with too much of that.

If that would have been me, ole buiscut would have never got back in the truck. 

[Hog Dog Mike]

I talked to my buddy today and he is going to have biscuit cut. He would not be able to hunt this weekend anyway because he got his front leg chewed up.