In Hawaii everyone mostly hunt with dogs for pig, goat, wild cow. I’ve been working dogs my whole life and used to breed pure oldschool catahoulas out here for ranching and working wild cow out of our herds (shipped my dogs all over to the mainland, outer islands, Guam, and New Zealand).
My working dogs were Aden, Blair, and Salty genetics. I’ve sold most but kept my Aden (silver leopard) and Salty (blue leopard) because they get noses and are super gritty.
For my hunting line I want a dog that has a mean nose, uses their eyes. is fast, gritty, wants to please, listens, and thinks! Keep in mind I usually only hunt with one or two dogs and my 3030 depending on what I’m going after. Goat and deer = 1 dog, big hogs = 2 dogs.
Right now my hunting line is Catahoula x PharoahHound/kelpie/shorthair collie (black dog) which I’ve dubbed “hawaiian mountain cur”. And she is a f***in beast! She knows how to stalk, quiet, fast, mental nose like her grandma, mean eye sight, gritty, blah blah blah. Checks all my boxes and the best part I only need to use her. She knows how to dial down the pressure to not get em to run, she can stop em and spin em and keep em there till I come in with da lead pill.
Dogs in 1st pic are my crew now all from the Silver leopard on da left.
the dogs in the second pic are my Aden (left) and one of her daughters which was salty x Aden (right). Hog dressed 226 no guts! 2 dog action! Yeah I had long hair when I was a young buck!
