catch dogs

[TT]

i wanna no wat yall call lead in and runni catch dogs i keep mine on a lead but if i can here bay there gone, dosent mater how far if i can hear it and there pulling, i just somtimes her people leadin em all the way in or letting em run loose, . do i run wat some consider running catch dog

[Snuffer]

I consider a running catch dog to be a dog that hunts on the ground with the strike dogs that will go to the bay and catch.  Personally, I turn the catch dogs loose as soon as I hear a solid bay.  I dont normally lead in.

[Boardog]

I would classify that a lead in catch dog me personaly dont let my catchdog loose until i see what the dogs got. I have just seen to many times where somone will turn the catchdog loose when they hear a bay but they may be 200yards from the bay and as the catchdog is on his way there the hog breaks and then no tellin how far that catchdog may have to run i have just seen to many dogs over heat and get cut up to much by the time i get there when i do that.


Michael Conatser

[Black Gold]

For me a RCD never sees a lead unless they are being caught to bring them back to the truck to go home.  In my mind a true RCD hunts with another dog (RCD) or maybe 2.....winds hogs close and then runs them down and catches them.  That's just Cody's world.....may work different on another planet!

[L3Outdoors]

I'm with Cody on this one. A true RCD should be able to strike and find its own hogs, and not need a hound/cur type to help him find. They are turned out to hunt just like you would a hound/cur type strike dog. No leads until is quiting time. They make great dogs for small properties if stock broken properly. In Ozz and other parts of the world they call them Finder/Holders because that is exacly what they do.

[TT]

so im in the middle

[madshark]

I got lucky with my pit bull Baby a couple weeks ago.  Heard a bay a couple hundred yards off and cut the catch dogs loose.  Apparently, on the way in Baby saw the big boar that broke behind her and went and caught him.  She's 50# he was probably 250#.  By the time we got to the first bay and sorted things out then found her, 600yds away, she'd been fighting with this hog about 20 minutes.  She didn't get hurt but was spent and it coulda been worse.  If I'd had the catch dogs on the lead still I could have turned both of them on the big boar and come back to the bay.

Then Saturday evening, I was hunting an area with extremely heavy brush and Palmettos.  I tried to lead the catch dogs all the way in to the bay and the hogs heard us and ran every time.  I think if I'd turned the white dogs loose a little further out we could a caught some of those hogs.

Seems to me there's no set answer as to when to release lead in catch dogs.  Every time I go in the woods I learn a little more.

[TT]

if i dont cut mine loose theyll drag us to bay lol

[shawn]

be careful, ive cut a lead in catch dog loose to early and had a dog that looked like swiss cheese when it came limping back.

id use a short range RCD but unfortunately my bulldog likes to MOVE when he's let go

[justincorbell]

even though its a huge pain in the a$$ to lead a 90lb bulldog through the woods we usually do it anyway......the reason i do it is because im not tryin to get a dog or a hog killed for no reason..........a true rcd is a dog that is smaller built, faster, more in shape so to say than a lead in catch dog. I'll be honest if i let my pitt run with the other dogs he'd be plum wore out before he ever got to the bay....and a wore out catch dog is not something i want to have on the business end of a 350lb boar hahaha...............so im with cody on this one.......and yeah i think u may in a way be in the middle. but hey man  if it aint broke don't fix it right? good luck out there and happy huntin. Justin