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Does anyone have any catch dogs for sale? I'm looking a pair of catch dogs that can run with my hounds. I've honestly never dealt with catch dogs and know next to nothing about them other than what I've been told. I bear hunt mainly so they would have to have enough brains not to latch onto a bear but, still hold a hog. Is that even possible?? I am also pretty sure that I don't want a full pit.

Any advise even if you don't have any dogs for sale??

Thanks.

I'm not sure you can get a catch dog not to catch a bear if it catches hogs. Takes alot of game and not much brain to catch! Jmo, but pit is the way to go, I don't believe any cd will have the stamina to run with hounds on the ground. My CDs will catch anything being bayed, no matter what it is.

imo & experiance. ''running'' catch dogs are dead dogs. you cannot expect a dog to run all day with the hounds and still have enough left for the fight. by the time the go to catch they are wore out. even catch dogs that are in great shape will fall to a tusker if they have been running all day. run your hounds untill hey have the hog stopped then walk in to the bay with your catch dog.

Think about it. If all your other dogs see a couple RCDs run in and catch, what do you think they are going to do? RCDs+strike dogs= one hell of a mess on a bad hog

Do you fellas believe it's possible to run say two catch dogs together and actually catch hogs? Or.......do you think they will both end up dead? Or.....better yet just one catch dog?

I have never intentionally ran hogs with my hounds but the other day they did manage to find one in a odd spot but they had it bayed, bayed in a big briar 2 on one side and one dog on the other it was tough cause it was in a tunnel the hog had made through the big blackberry briar they were not catching, the hog would charge and ram um but it was a sal, luckily, i think if were a big ranky boar we might have been in trouble cause they could not move near as good as they could have because of the thick thick brairs they were in. They would sink teeth to help one another but IMO that is not close to catching, but i guarantee if there would have been a real catch dog there every one of my 3 hounds would have caught with it. Now that brings me to ? If i were to bring a catch dog with me next time and my dogs caught with it do you think the following time they would catch without the catchdog, or try too, or just bay up agian?? Like i said it was all new to me and pretty fun got my blood pumpin, crawlin around in the nushes with that kind of intensity was fun. Sorry to change the subject

In my limited experience they are just bay dogs, that's all they will be except maybe on a little pig.

Thanks Dan that is what i expected to hear and that is perfectly fine for i don't want them to catch but i am pretty sure they would if there were catch dog there but i guess i will find out. Thanks DC

It sounds to me that your hounds did just what they were supposed to on that sow. Keep baying until she charged or tried to run, then put the ivory to her, then get back and bay. Most dogs will help when a catch dog catches, but I would rather my bay dogs stay back and let the bulldog do the catching. Good strike and bay dogs are ten times harder to find than a bulldog that will catch.

I have never been bear hunting. I don't know if a catch dog will catch a bear or not, but a sho' nuff catch dog will hit a four hundred pound boar hog running wide open. I would assume that type of dog would do the same thing to a bear.

Coady thanks for the reply. Yes i would imagine that a TRUE CATCH DOG would do the same to a 400 pound bear i would also imagine it would be it's last and if not it would not be a catch dog on BEAR anymore JMO. The teeth and claws of a 400 lb bear are far more fierce than a hog of the same weight again JMO IM NOT SAYING a big hog of that caliber is an easy task. Thanks for the reply take care DC.

they will more then likely get your hounds cut up in my opinion had a cur plott mix catching fool but my hounds would catch with him other then bay sold the dog to a guy in south ga he loves him i like good bay dogs other then catch dogs just my opinion