I have bred Great Pyreenes, and most of the 32 pups I bred are still working on local farms. I am telling you from my own experiance, the WEB is a livestock guarding dog of great inteligence, power, and most of all - control. The WEBs are "on-call." They have been used in the Deep South by farmers for as long as anyone can remember. I suggest you talk with farmers over 40, 50, 60, 70 years old in the Deep South who have always known these dogs and the info has been passed down from their fathers and grandfathers. Sorry, these guys don't waste their time on the internet. Better than that, come to my farm when I'm not home and mess with my livestock and watch how quick you get tagged! But if your not wiling to investigate for yourself, please give us the respect of not condemming us without first-hand knowledge. Or read the book, Gladiator Dogs by Dr Carl Semenic who investigated American Bulldogs from the mid 1970s. Or read the artical in the American Bulldog Review with Allen Scott where he says, "Remember where I advertised to start with, it was in the "Gamecock Magizine" Most of the dogs I sold were for keeping coyotes and stuff out of your livestock." More than that, Jeff Clark has been breeding his strain of WEBs since 1964, and he sends his WEB in to sleep with his hogs. Most of the old bulldogs are being lost to crossbreeding for catch dogs, since this has become a popular sport and we are dedicated to saving what's left. :cry: Please understand, catch work, even on wild boar, is livestock retrieval; the catch dog does not kill. However, for real catch work on wild boar, may I suggest the Catahola? 2 - 3 Cats can round up and load on trailers 50 to 75 wild boar in a day. This is not a sport. :wink: