Favorite Hog Dogs

[crackerc]

I am curious as to what type of dogs a lot of you guys are hunting. Seems everyone is hunting something different. A lot of the pics are of hogs and may have a dog or two in the pics, but I am interested in seeing what the dogs are.

Any of you guys want to post a pic of your dogs (with or without hogs) and a note saying what they are or how they are bred? Especially your favorite hog dogs.

Anyone that knows me knows my Dixie female. She is by far the best find and bay dog I have ever owned or hunted with. Problem is, she went and got old on me!! She turned 11 last March and you guys know thats OLD for a hog dog. She was my main find and bay dog for years and her littermate brother Rock was my lead in catch dog. And don't think if a hog broke he didn't have enough leg under him to run it down and catch it!! And you better have a break stick when you went to get him off the hog. We never hog hunted Rock as he was a cow dog too and would go to cows. But if his sister bayed, he would run over cows to catch the hog. They were a great team and taught me a lot about hog hunting with just two dogs.


Dixie in her prime.


Rock in his prime.

[Circle C]

I have to say to this day my favorite dog to hunt behind was Blue owned my Mike Bolen.  Just a no BS kind of dog, he was a Catahoula and in his younger years I am told he thought he was a catch dog, but by the time I got to hunt behind him used just enough grit to keep them bayed.   Probably the only dog I can think of that I really miss....and he wasn't even my dog!

[matt_aggie04]

Blue was a great dog, I was fortunate to get to catch quite a few hogs behind him.  The thing that stood out to me was his ability to find one right when you were about to give up finding one and he could keep nearly any hog bayed alone.


My favorite dog that I own is Smiley, she is a half BMC half Cat that I bought when she was two.  She will be 6 at the end of this year but she is the only dog that I have ever owned that KNOW what I want her to do and I can typically just takl to her.  She has a very good handle, not the deepest hunting dog but still finds her own hog regularly and can wind really well when I tell her to ride the box.  She is a like a kid to me a like just being around her.  You never have to worry about her fooling around, you take her down to the pond to go fishing and she will sleep in the shade or catch frogs in the shallow water, go back to the house collar up and she will hunt out.  She just knows what you want.


My second favorite is my little black dog Crow.  He has his short comings like most but he is hard to beat in the hussel department.  He just turned two and has been hunting well since about 6-7 months old.  He is 3/4 BMC and 1/4 English Pointer.

[crackerc]

That Blue dog seems like he would have been my kind of dog. I like a dog that will do it alone, with no help. Most of the time I will hunt just one dog out or a grown dog and a young dog. I have never been able to convince 3-4 of my potlickers out at one time that they need to BAY....

Thats what made Dixie so great in my eyes. We would hunt someone elses "good" dog in front of the truck or cast him out. When that dog would come back we would turn Dixie out by herself without moving and she would go bay a hog the other dogs never knew was there. And she could keep almost any hog bayed , just had an uncanny ability to do that. Most hogs would break and run if they had been dog caught before but she could just make them stand and bay. Never quite figured out how she could do it, while other dogs hunting the same place couldn't. I could write volumes about things she did, but I want to hear about some of you guys dogs.

That Blue dog sounds like he had the same ability to find and keep one bayed. Its rare to see one that just stands out by himself and that others (besides the owners) think are really good dogs.

You guys keep posting, lets see what you are hunting!

[shawn]

Buster, owned by Daniel (RIP) is by far the best I've seen, will find, bay by himself, you really don't need anymore baydogs with him, it just makes it easier I suppose. In fact he is Daniels only bay dog and was ran by himself for a long time and found and bayed up many by himself.

The last 8 months or so he has been spoiled hunting with dogs of mine and other buddies. But I have seen him have several good sized hogs bayed alone till help gets there. He is a spectaular dog and what I'm sure I'll be searching for awile to equal.

[crackerc]

Where did the Buster dog come from? He looks almost like my Spur dog but I am sure they are not related unless Buster came from Fla. Same color, same white markings, long tail, etc. Course, sounds like Buster is a lot better dog than my Spur dog!

I have never been to Tx (not yet anyway) and only sent one dog out there, but he is dead now.

Here is a pic of my Spur dog, don't they look alike?

[Lyssy]

I hunt a wide range of breeds. They consist of two blue lacys, a BMC gyp, plott catahoula cross,  two catahoula bulldog, ridge back cur cross, cur birddog cross, a lacy cur bulldog cross, reg. catahoula, and all the young pups are lacy and catahoula lacy cross pups. Wanting to breed the BMC to a good BMC thats big and stout and has some good lrgs under him willing to give the pic of the litter for stud service. She is out of ruddy cantu lines.

[craig]

my favorite dog had to be Earl (bmc) he was 9 yrs old when he got killed.

he was a longrange pork producer...

[elliscountyhog]

The first two are the ones i was discussing with circle c on another post a great 2 dog team and got the job down, we caught this hog on one of them place where the guys kept getting out ran and we went and gave it a whirl and caught this runnin sob
Man i used to be skinny Sweetie is the black n tan catahoula and missy the brindle 3/4 plott 1/4 pitt




This is Cisco i loved this dog as well he had his moments of open trailing and deer bumpin but man was a hog finding machine and perty too All three dogs are gone now :'(

[cward]

I have owned many good one's I can't get the picture's on here.This is a gyp that was born and raised by me this picture waswhen she was fourteen years old she died a week after this picture was taken she would travle as for as one could to find a hog and take atrack and go with it.Tough to beat dhe was one of those pro football player she was finding hogs at 11 months old and nerver quit I never retired he I would use her if someone had found a track of a big hog I would catch up with them to use her to find it!She almost got my Ike dog  culled because when he was a pup I put him with her and he got way ahead sat down went to baying I seen her cross one road trailing and he quit and came back to find her she whet to the same place he was baying and bayed then he started baying with her.Thats why my wife say's he is hers because I was going to cull him for that and she stopped me!Ike and her were half brother and sister.She was 13 and he was just a pup there daddy lived to 17 years old wish I had some pictures of her in her prime she was one of the best built dogs a man could ask for!Her name was TITY BABY

[Circle C]

Here are some more that rank pretty high up there for me.

Sherry - aka the old lady - East Texas brindle cur - owned by Thomas Rohan - I was fortunate enough to get to keep and hunt her for several months in late 07 early 08 to use as a puppy trainer. Not sure how old she is now, but I think she is bumping 12 years old and still getting it done.



Pictured left to right
Matt's Smiley, Mike's Tweety, and Mandi's Lizzie- The "A" team

[shawn]

was checkin this post out again and felt bad because i didnt include my own dog, lol, he is the son to richard's cisco and missy, good little dog, got more heart than dogs twice his size, has the unfortunate scars to prove it, i have doctored more cuts on this dog and shot him with more pen than my bulldog,  ol Rocky, lots of bottom, and a great nose, plus a cool dog to boot. the best dog ive ever had in my yard.

[Mike]

Crackerc, I've loved them catahoula dogs since I was kid. My kinfolks up out Winnfield, LA free ranged hogs for generations... just called them cur dogs. Unfortunately, when I got started hunting with dogs, they had been out of it for a while. I'd love to have some my uncle's dad's old dogs. They all were built and looked like my old Blue dog, block headed leopards with crazy colored eyes.

Thanks for the kind words Matt and Chris. I know I've told y'all a hundred times... but you should have seen him hunt before the brucellosis took his jewels. Imagine the black dog's hustle with his nose and bottom.

Was he a perfect dog... no. His main drawback was when there were too many people and too many dogs on a hunt. I drug that dog all over the state and hunted in just about every type of terrain you could imagine and he produced hogs. Helluva nose and could be hunted any way you wanted to hunt him. Not always, but a great geal of the time out struck any other dog on the ground. You'll never see me brag or talk up any of my dogs, but since he's dead and gone I guess I can say a few good words about him.

Two other dogs that in my top three favorites would be Mr. Mason's Daisy Blue and old man Herman's Blue Eyed gyp. Both outstanding dogs that have produced more hogs than anyone cares to count.

[uglydog]

Mr.Mason's Daisy Blue, I don't have many pics of her, well cause she ain't mine, but I have always wished she was

[matt_aggie04]

Good call on Herman's "blue eyed b!tch" as he called her.  Without question the ONLY dog I have every hunted behind that when you turned her loose you never saw until you were at the hog.  She would roll out and be gone again, she was a unique dog to say the least.  A real leggy red leapard dog with blue eyes.  Funny to think about that dog never wore a tracking collar haha how she made it is beyond me.  I know of several occasions where the hog would break and they would pick her up on the highway several days later headed back home 15-20 miles from where they turned out.
Matt

[Noah]

CrackerC, this is Shiner, hopefully you'll get to see her hunt this weekend.  This dog is still really young, but she is in a league of her own.  Longer range dog than I usually hunt, but that's the only thing I've been able to fault her for.  Just over 65#'s, runs like a cheetah, bays like a champ, catches hard as a bulldog.  I'll put some more shots of the other dogs up tomorrow, but I think you'll be surprised how much my Snappa gyp looks like your Dixie.  Talk at you tomorrow.

[chancebrown]

The brindle dog is Bad Betty my catchdog, and the red dog is Buck my 1/2 pit 1/4 bmc 1/4 redbone. he is a littermate to Bondie and Auzzy or Troy Thorns.

here is Betty(brindle) and Rampage(black) my two main catchdogs

[Wormy Dog Kennels]

THE YELLA HAMMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chancebrown]

wormydog great looking yella dogs you got there. in my opinion you cant beat a good yella dog

[craig]

i like them wormy dogs !!