Concerning My Avatar

[BulldogBalls]

I personally have never seen or heard of a competion where multiple dogs were used on one hog. That is not acceptable in any way. My use of the word sport and that hog catching is a sport is in direct reference to the training of the dogs and the sport of hunting hogs with dogs.

The media is famous for misrepresenation and just plain wrong/incorrect information. Hog catching has been made out to be a brutal sport and I will say it can seem that way and is being banned as a sport while the hunting is still allowed. My point is for the hunting as the sport and the goal. It is legitimate in that it is necessary for the dogs to be trained for the hunting to be safe and effective.

The competition I went to a hog was used only once, and the whole endeavor lasted about 20-45 seconds and I never saw a single hog with an injury or blood. The dogs require training, and the competition atmosphere was originally used for training purposes and to title the dogs. The banning of the sport, the competition as it became and the abuse of the animals while calling it hog catching, I am fine with, it is the use of the hogs for training purposes and the use of the dogs in actual hunts that affects me. I consider hog hunting a sport, not a hog in a pen and multiple dogs or a hog in a pen to be a sport. That is training, regulation, rules, that isn't sport.

I've been talking about the use of hogs for training and for hunting - not for penning a dog with a boar and letting them have at.

I will modify my avatar, though that picture is an actual hunt and not a penned match. Those dogs are actually the ancestors/bloodline of a pup I am getting this year - that is why I chose the picture. I don't want to seem to be supporting the sport of penning a hog and a dog. I found a picture I like better anyways

What do you think of the new one?

[Wolves-N-Dogs]

"What do you think of the new one?"

Looks like one of my two legged hogs

[BulldogBalls]

LOL

I just changed it again, I really will stick with this one. I went with the french ring take downs and the settled for the running dog. Reminds me so much of Cajun.

[slartibartfast]

I personally have never seen or heard of a competion where multiple dogs were used on one hog. That is not acceptable in any way.

Multiple dogs in one ring appear in the following links.
I'm hardly an afficionado of the sport, but it didn't take long to find the pics and references.

An article on Uncle Earl's, which seems to be referenced as the most formal and well-recognized competition:
http://www.bltcatahoulas.com/Uncle%2...%20Article.htm

Description from a breeder's website:
Uncle Earl's Hog Dog Trials **** March 21-25, 2007
Winnfield, Louisiana
Nations largest gathering of bay dog enthusiasts competing with superior bay dogs!!

Results from Uncle Earls:
http://www.bayedsolid.com/uncle_earls.htm
Categories clearly listed are "One dog" and "Two dog", for every year from '99 to '07.

Two pictures show 2 and 3 dogs with one hog.
http://www.bayedsolid.com/winnfield_1999_winners.htm

Perhaps you've never heard of Uncle Earl's? It's only been a big media story for like the last four years....


Here's another. Check out the trial photos.
http://www.baydog.com/photos.htm
Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 (out of 7 total) show multiple dogs on one hog.

The NALC, arguably the most reputable registry of the Catahoula breed, runs 2-dog bay trials multiple times a year.
http://www.jcrosscatahoulas.com/awards.html

I'm sorry, but either you're not as big into the sport as you claim, or your quoted statement above is not true.

[N4S]

who cares.

[jknudson]

who cares.

Exactly!

[Wolves-N-Dogs]

Must be Mike Vick fans

[jknudson]

Must be Mike Vick fans

No, I'm glad that scum went to jail.

Those dogs were designed for that sort of use. Like was already stated...the dogs were used to pin boar in a non lethal way for the hunter... BTW I think you're late for your PETA meeting.

[BulldogBalls]

Those are bay dogs. Not catch dogs, hun

Bay dogs bark and chase. Bay dogs bay the hog and run it down. Bay dogs are not supposed to be bite or even touch the hog.

The Uncle Earl stuff is not what hog catching or hog hunting is about. A lot of the pictures showing mutliple dogs are old, from other countries, or actual hunts. Multiple dogs on one hog, biting one hog, attacking one hog, is not hog catching, that IS cruel and abusive towards the hogs and the sport of hog hunting.

I don't participate in competition and wouldn't if they were still held. Any hog dogs trained by me will be used for real hunts on feral pigs.

[N4S]

Must be Mike Vick fans

He is my dad.