as far as bay dogs what ever works ,but i like the black mouth cur x catahoula ,they got grit and can bite like a pit ,the pit in the pic ,is a pure bred our stock ,when he gets on the hog they know it ,when he grabs my bays grab .he got cut on the neck sat ,he loves him a hog .for a while he wanted the other dogs ,but when he got a hog it was on .