04/13/2026
Oh, what a beautiful day ☀️ …
Puppy training day was a success ✅
Bay dog puppies got their first real world experience of a wild hog, just the perfect size for me to feel comfortable letting them work it with minimal help. Genie, our Blue Lacy dog, has always been my #1 puppy trainer 😆 She’s wonderful at getting the puppies to engage, rile their curiosity and prey drive all the way up, and showing them the ropes. Then I let Mars, the Cane Corso pup loose to let him hone in on his role as the catch dog, which he did phenomenally as well. He went to their bark, across the water, and engaged without a second of hesitation, doing his job at securing the hog to keep everyone else safe. This was a small hog, perfect size for puppy training but also not a piglet. I personally have never liked training any of my dogs on piglets or any hog smaller than the dog. I want them to have a joyful experience but also feel the danger and size difference. I prefer whenever possible to always keep it real with a real wild hog in the hogs environment, this imo will make them better hog dogs and prepare them to be safer when they’re up against a real monster later in their journey. This has always worked best for me. One of our bay dog puppies got bit pretty good because she got way too close and gritty, but even that is a great lesson for her to learn now on this small hog and not later on a big Boar that can be fatal. All in all, it was a beautiful day full of great experiences for the pups!
