Question about a hunt this morning...

[Mike]

My point was simply that if the dog had shown aggressiveness towards a hog in a baypen environment, then it should have gotten "gamey" in the woods as well, but your right in that to what extent did he show promise in the pen.

Exactly, when he said the dog caught on the second hog with the others... made me wonder how "started" he was.

[Monteria]

I just thought that I might also try to be helpful..... Here is how we get catch dogs that we can always count on for FREE.

My hunting partner made friends with a local and independent Pit Bull rescue group. That's it, I don't think that he ever invested more than a bag of food. What he did though is explain to them what a catch dogs job is and why that job is so important. He made sure that they understood that the pits would be well protected, showing them the collars and vests and explaining the task at hand in detail.

In the end, the rescue group is happy that their dogs go to a home where they will be cared for and that feed bills no longer come out of their pocket.

We go pick a dog that looks good and try it out on a BIG pig. If it does not go strait to catching on a BIG pig, it goes back and we pick another.

Now I might make it sound like we take advantage of this frequently but the truth is that we have only done it 3 times. Twice for us and once for a friend. All three of those dogs have been catching for 3-4 years. During these trials, at least 5 others went back to the rescue.

I hope this helps some others come up with a good method of getting A+ catch dogs at little to no cost. It remains my opinion that if I catch dog thinks about what it is doing, even once, it is a risk to the rest of your pack.

Steve

[gardner32]

well i went out with the guy today that has this dog to see what happened, we didnt catch a hog but one his dogs started to open up and that pit was pullin that lead wanting to, the bay was never strong enough to release him but he was wanting to go on the bark. later in the hunt we took her off the lead and let it walk around with us another dog opened up and she darted in the woods that way we didnt get anything again but that pitt sure was showing alot more promise today, im pretty sure his catch dog is goin to make a good catch dog.

[So Oklahoma Cur Dogs]

I have found another way to get some catch dogs. It's called craigslist.com. Go to the pet section and type in pitt. There's people all around here that are moving or cant keep theirs for some reason or another and will give them away or sell them cheap. Theres a nice fm brindle in Caddo Mills right now for $20 adn some free greatdane/pitt in Denton. I really like craigs list cause you can deal directly with the seller and dont worry about bidding like on ebay. I bought a truck on it a couple weeks ago. Hope this helps.

[So Oklahoma Cur Dogs]

Update on this dog in question. She's hittin like a freight train on the ear and has to be broke off now. I guess she just had to figure it out. She hasn't got on a real big one yet so I guess that will be the real test.

[Noah]

Glad to hear it, just keep feedin' her hogs and you ought to have a good'n!

[Clay]

Big difference in pen and woods. First is your actions...Your excited running around and acting crazy the dog is confused unless you run around like that at home. Second is unless you have a wooded pen then the view is totally different. Hey may have focosed on the hog and not the dogs barking. Never being in the woods he didnt know. I bet that if he was put in the situation again he will probably catch because the dogs showed him or he may not and wait for the others to catch first. Needs to be run with a older catch dog so he can be shown a couple of times to go to the bark and catch the hog when he gets there like Mike said.

[Mike]

 

[Black Gold]

I like one that does think... they live alot longer.

Agreed