Starting my own pack.

[Cmwhogger]

Hey guys new to the group. Been hog doggin a couple years and recently got my own dogs. I have one 2 year old Bmc/plott and a couple 9 month old Lacey's. I hunt with a couple guys but they don't hunt a lot so I have been hunting with my 3 dogs quite a bit. The 2 year old knows what he's doing and the other 2 never seen a pig. Am I doing more harm than good hunting like this?

[halfbreed]

   no  , that's how I started out with one Catahoula and some young pups .  it didn't take but a minute and I was roping hogs [ didn't have a catch dog  lol  ] .

[Cmwhogger]

Thanks just a little discouraged trying to get these pups going. One of the Lacey's was owned by a squirrel hunter and he wouldn't tree so I got ahold of him. He hunts good just have to get him on hogs and not squirrels.

[c dunn]

I started with one catahoula. Then found an old friend that let me go. That was about 17 years ago. All I can tell you is put as many miles on them dogs as possible and preferably in good sign. Miles miles and more miles

[Cmwhogger]

I work Monday-Friday and I hunt every chance I get but around here it's big hilly timber and hard to get on pigs but I'm just worried bout the dogs not gettin on enough pigs to stay away from trash. The 2 pups that is.

[thegroundskeeper]

if you can start feeding them and getting them in a certain area and start putting the dogs in the freshest sign as possible.  Especially the young ones.  Do your best to set them up to succeed.  I even trapped some hogs I  where I was hunting and would leave the dogs in the truck and walk in there and rope the hog and walk him around and tie him to a tree for several times. 

[Cmwhogger]

Thanks guys. Just needin some reassurance. It's hard to get goin with only one dog that knows what a pig is.

[Judge peel]

Keep hammering away and before ya know it they will be pros

[Cmwhogger]

Have any of you guys had luck turning a squirrel/coon dog into a hog dog?  One of the lacys runs squirrels but as soon as they go up a tree he stops. He's never seen a pig so I'm worried about trying to break him before he sees some pigs. Pretty new to training my own dogs lol.

[Reuben]

I know someone who was given a Kemmer that wouldn't tree but hunted well...he said that was one heck of a hog dog...

 I picked up a good up and coming Kemmer coon dog for a friend of my while I was out of state...he was a one man dog...but once he decided to hunt he was as good a hog dog as any...

I also picked up another mt cur that was an up and coming coon dog but he liked to trash on hogs...so I bought him and he was making a good dog but I didn't like him constantly wanting to show the other dogs he was the boss so I sold him to a friend...this dog is going on 12 years old and has been a very good hog dog...

[Reuben]

Like already mentioned...stage a few hunts for the lacy's or use a bay pen for them...in the woods turn them in to a bay...or in to fresh hog sign...if they are born to hunt it should be pretty easy to get them going...hunting dogs are born...