Continue from the previous post, below are some explaination of the types of dogs used for wild boar hunting. Many types of dogs are able to be a good wild boar hunting dogs, curs, hounds, mix breeds etc, it all depends on the type of hunting pattern you prefer. Some may like the dogs do most of the job from tracking, chasing to catching. Some may only want their dogs to sniff out the boars, track them down silently and you end it with your gun. All depends. Refer below to make your best combination:

For biting – Catch Dog – bite and do not let go. Most Bull Breed dogs and bull-mixed are good catch dog. Like Pit Bull, Bulldog, Dogo Argentino, Cane Corso, Alano Espanol etc. They are the gladiators.

For barking and stopping – Bay Dog – They are not as courageous as Catch Dogs. Their main purpose is to chase down a prey in a pack, nip it and bark at it to pervent the prey from running away until you arrive. These are especially useful dogs. In a pack of dogs for hunting, they should consist no less that 2 or 3 in a pack of 8 dogs. Depending on your hunting strategy, if you do not need your dogs to hold down the prey until you arrive and would mind the casualties of your dogs. These dogs are the suitable ones. Depending on situation, some bay dogs are also catch dogs when facing with smaller boars.

For leading – Find Dog – They are the dogs that find the boar and chase after it until they get it. You only need one in your pack and they are especially a hard dog to get. Mostly you won’t know a dog is a Find Dog until you bring them to the woods and let them show you. Find Dog take the lead to smell out boars, then let the others loose to follow it. Find Dog can also be a bay dog but should not be a catch dog. You don’t want it to end up most of the time in vet and loose the opportunity to go pack hunting. Besides, Find Dog needs to have another quality which is able to come back to you after any unsuccessful chases. You don’t want it to go “Holland” or bring other dogs to “Holland”…

For group voluming – Pack Dog – they can be of any dog and stay in pack with the other dogs. These dogs add volume to your pack, they might only know how to bark but they act as a diversion to the boar if the boar charges and more importantly when you have a pack of dogs charging toward a boar less tendency for a boar to fight back than to fleet.