Sorry, I guess sometimes you get cught up in the local lingo, and expect everybody to know what your talking about. We have alot of small operations inour area, and your handfull of recreational ranchers(go figure) since we are within 40 minutes of Austin. Alot of city peaple have bought land in the country and need the ag-break on the taxes they go buy cattle at the sale barn, turn em loose and hope for the best. Some dont know what fence maintainance is, some just buy bad cattle and dont take the time to pen them and let them settle.Some of the old timers feed bucket thier cows and have one old cow that wont come in.Any way, if somebody has cattle loose off thier place in the brush or timber,My partner and I have some pretty gritty curdogs, we let the curs bay em up good, rope em and drag em in the trailer. The curs will bay em till they sull up and want to fight, so they make you look good with a rope but the dogs do 90 percent of the work. The tracking dog I run is a Belgian Shep. that is also cerified in bite work, which sometimes must be utilized when tracking felons on the move.