Mudd, the hogs can work over dogs. Their teeth are long and they can gash a dog up pretty well..I had a very good dog retire early due to a well place bite from a hog. Size matters, and only small terriers can work them where i am, as the hogs dig away if the dog doesn't get to it and engage it quickly, and even a determined terrier cannot keep up with a hog wanting to collapse a tunnel and dig on. They're hard to kill in the ground, (but I have seen it done)again, due in part to the size of the dogs needed to hunt them. I'll dig up to 16 plus pound hogs with a 9 or 10 lb dog, and a hog is bui