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[ar.hogdog]

I'm with Mr. Mike.

[TexasHogDogs]

It was really no big deal .  Like you say every time you go is a different situation.  I think after it was all said and done even ole T said we probably should have went to the older dogs .  But at the time he didn't know and I didn't know the pups was not gonna get on something they could not handle and by the time we got back it could have been a wreck there to .   So it is just a judgment call is all it is at the time it is happening.  I can say this I highly respect Tdog's opinion's and desions about everything when it comes to hog dogs and hog hunting Ive known him a long long time and is a great great friend .  We came out of it good nobody hurt so it was a good call.  I felt like the dogs were messing with a lot of young pigs yall don't get me wrong if I feel like my young dogs are on some hogs they may not can handle are in a bind then sure I myself will go to my young dogs first when it comes to that I know how fast a young dog can get wrecked and ruined .  Its all just a judgment call at the time it is all happening and a lot of factors come in to play on each situation .

[ar.hogdog]

 I wouls much rather them pups get them a hog.

[Hamilton_hogger]

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[justincorbell]

I'm just the opposite... I'm always going to the pups first.

The old dogs know their job... they'll be bayed when I get there.

Thats my outlook as well Mr. Mike

So what do you do when all your chit eaters are young? Haha

All depends on the situation and which dogs are where.....same as u would do  ya dummy!

[cantexduck]

  I would let the older dogs bay and collect up the young dogs. I expect my older dogs to bay until I can get there. Everyone is different though.

[Black Smith]

how do you look at a dog and tell it is frustrated???

[BIG CHRIS]

I'm gonna go to the young dogs. If my older dog is bayed up and my young mutt starts hammering away I'm gonna go check him first to make sure he isn't screwing up. Once I got there and he was on a shoalt killing spree I would would go to the vegts and leave the young to play with some pigs.

[Coady Curbow]

I am going to the closest bay.  If none of them are bayed, I'm going to wait until one group or the other sits down.  I try to stay in Garmin range of the dogs. With today's hogs you can walk yourself to death (or burn a tank of gas) trying to stay with dogs that are running or trailing a hog.

[TexasHogDogs]

Yall got to realize and I know yall was not there but there were pigs running everywere .  Little footballs size and more than a couple of herds of them .  All the dogs on the ground were young dogs except Horn, Whitey and Bell the other there were just young dogs learning.  The only real bay that happend was the very first one and it was caught when everybody got there.  The three older dogs rolled off and I think went with a couple of big sows that was proably there with all the footballs.  The young dogs stayed and were chasing , barking , killing and noting ever got bayed again it was just dogs chasing footballs catching them and doing what ever it was they done with them .   When the older dogs got back it was just a cluster muck young dogs would bark here young dogs would bark there a pig would squeel here and there and the older dogs were just running their selves to death between the young dogs and all the footballs running around.  My older dogs would come back to the wheeler and look at me like WTF man .  Then they would go to the young dogs again and by the time they would get to one the football would either be gone are dead then another bark from else were go to them and it was just back and fourth back and fourth .  After a few times of me watching my older dogs and them coming back to me which dont happen very often with those WTF looks on their faces and hotter than hell from running from young dog to young dog I just said the hell with it and started picking up my older dogs which my Bell dog was already hot from all of it .  My older dogs are not use to that kinda stuff they get out and hunt find hogs and are their with the hogs till we can get there are the bulldog not a bunch of young dogs running threw every brush pile barking and rasing hell .  It was just not a good thing for older dogs even tho lots of football size pigs which I have seen a lot of times my older dogs wont hardly mess with the football size pigs and leave to try and find the bigger ones .

Like I said a cluster muck is what it was .  A pain in de Ars !