Your perfect bay

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I want the dogs to stand back about 5-10 ft away and bark every breath. When the hog breaks i want ONE dog to go for the nuts.

Thats what I like, plus I like to see that some teeth have been applied at some point showing me that the dogs stopped it from running and not the pig stopped on its own but was forced.

[sike-ohunter]

I want the dogs to stand back about 5-10 ft away and bark every breath. When the hog breaks i want ONE dog to go for the nuts.

Thats what I like, plus I like to see that some teeth have been applied at some point showing me that the dogs stopped it from running and not the pig stopped on its own but was forced.

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[H.Wilson]

I want the dogs to stand back about 5-10 ft away and bark every breath. When the hog breaks i want ONE dog to go for the nuts.

Thats what I like, plus I like to see that some teeth have been applied at some point showing me that the dogs stopped it from running and not the pig stopped on its own but was forced.

Not trying to crash any ones style but I see no need in my dogs hammering down every Breath if the hog is settled down cause for instance the situation me and T-Bob where in Saturday morning with two dogs bayed in an extremely hard to reach area for several hours if these dogs would have been hammering the whole time there is no doubt in my mind they would have either quit the hog or died from heat stress the hog will settle down as he gets tired to conserve energy until its necessary I want my dogs to settle with the hog as well not give him as much pressure as if he were charging and trying to break on a sounder of hogs I want the hogs to be grouped close together with a little pressure until settled as well I don't want one hog to break and be singled out I've seen several times from two specific dogs on my yard when a hog breaks out of a sounder one dog stays with the sounder as the other dog will work the hog that broke back in to the group and then making a couple of loops around to tighten the sounder back up then switching positions with the other dog and letting her make a couple loops then switching positions again

[T-Bob Parker]

Very good point and well thought out. Let's keep the dialogue going. I think several folks have spoken well for our point of view, so what I'd like to request is for those of you who do like a dog as described by Kid7 and arrowbar, why is that? What does this type of dog posses that floats yalls boat? does that type of dog work the hog or hogs more successfully or what?

This isn't a critical question or me wanting to debate, just want to know what y'all think and maybe influence some youngsters.

[Kid7]

H. Wilson that is a good point. Ive never been in the situation where it takes more than an hour to get to the bay. Im sure it will happen one day. But what i think is that if a dog will stand back and just bark then the hog doesnt feel pressured as much. Ive came to a bay and turned my bulldog to hogs that were bedded down. Not because they were hot and tired of runnin either. But ive also had hogs run every time they get barked at. Wat i personally really think is there is good and bad in both rough and loose dogs. But i like running two loose bay dogs and one bulldog. If you got rough dogs and you only run two or three one bad hog and theyre in trouble. My good gyp is prolly 4-5 now and shes been cut THREE times. One by gettin hung up in her chain, and two by hogs. IN her life. My other pup hasnt been cut yet. hes comin on 2 1/2 now.

[T-Bob Parker]

Good answer man. I was way off on the type of dog I thought you were originally describing.

[H.Wilson]

Me and you both T-Bob and thanks kid7 for being understanding and explaining with more depth I've had more than one instance where dogs are bayed and it takes awhile to get to them

[Kid7]

Thanks guys. I know its gonna happen some day when i cant get there lol. Just my 2cents