Just so you fellows don't think that I am just a Idaho bear hunter blowing smoke, you can look up my registered hog mark at Bronson, Levy county Courthouse. Swallow fork underbit in the left ear, crop underbit in the right ear. Grandpaws mark was swallow fork under bit in both ears. If you are hunting the Gulf Coast of Leavy County, you are hunting descendants of our stock from the days of the open range. If the old timers kept a dog, he earned his keep. He worked cattle and hogs. He would trail, jump and bay until you arrived and told him to catch. He would then catch an ear and hold him while you grabbed the hind legs, flipped and tied him. He released on command and stood watch overthe hoguntil you got in with the horse to load him for the ride home where he was fatten on corn. Pits, Dagos, Boxers, ect. were totally worthless. I never heard of the so called Florida cur, may be we owned them and didn't know it. Hog dogs are like bear dogs, they are where you find them. A good Plott Cur, (not a Plott Hound) is hard to beat.