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How many of y’all have weird quirks or traits that are pretty common throughout all your dogs you’ve noticed?

My old crank dog would smile at you and if we breed heavy back towards him it pops up in pups

Tons of them always lift their left front leg at you every time you walk up to them (always the left)

Got a few that will grab your hand in their mouth when you’re not paying them attention (not being aggressive or anything)


And I’ve yet to have a single one off this line that didn’t go through a lull between 1.5-2.5 where they just go from being on fire to having to force yourself not to cull them may only be about a month or so and then they snap out of it and turn back on better than they went into the lull (figure it all comes from the same dog, both sides of this yard have 1 dog in common)

Just something I’ve been trying to ponder on this rainy day


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The dog I started this family of dogs with was my once in a lifetime. He was MY dog. He wouldn’t even eat if somebody else fed him, be it a day or a week. That part I always figured was because of the way he started out in life. He took some pretty serious whoopins over messing with hogs, he was bred to be a cow dog. The next two people that had him either did absolutely nothing with him or had zero patience with him. When he figured out that I wanted him to be what he was born to be, a hog dog, there was no looking back. He would smile at me when I fed. If I went outside for anything other than feeding or to load dogs, he wasn’t going to get up. He would lay there all day and never say a word no matter what the other dogs did. He was smart enough to know when it was business time. The dogs that I am most attracted to in every litter seem to possess traits more similar to him. The dogs I have here now won’t hardly eat when someone else feeds and they won’t even hunt the same for Deputy Dawg if he takes them without me. Ava wouldn’t even come out to eat at all last week when I had a young man feed a couple days for me. Outlaw does that too and he won’t hardly get up unless it’s feeding time or hunting time. Other than that I have to call him in order for him to get up. I have a litter on the ground now and three or four of the pups I was drawn to right off the bat were the ones that were quiet and laid back. Nothing I did really made them pick their heads up even. I’m still drawn to those same pups.


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I’m glad this subject was about dogs. I at first thought you might be addressing me directly about my kids and all I could’ve told you was it came from their momma’s side!


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LOL! I know the feeling my kid is weird like his momma!


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I’m with you there every good dog I’ve owned especially down from crank has been calm laid back only get excited when they see a dog lead type dogs them spastic ones in the litter don’t seem to have the brains (just an observation in my dogs)


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I’m telling her you said that

That feist that was hanging around this evening produces smiling dogs. Every single one of them does it seems.


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Oh she knows lol


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My original line of dogs…all of my best dogs had a thinner base at the tail…i also had good dogs with normal tails just that those with the thinner tails all made above average dogs…

The other trait that stood out was the calm disposition that some of my best had…some acted like there wasn’t a heartbeat to them…drop the tailgate and they would put on a clinic…

Seems like those good ones have some common qualities


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That’s what I was thinking too


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I believe that to be true…

My uncle brought this to my attention and I see it in my leopard dogs. They come on hard and fast. And somewhere in that 2nd trip around the sun, they will fall off, forget what we are even out there doing. They’ll usually come back around and really show you what they’re gonna be within the next year.

   I chalk it up the fact there is lots of changes going on in a dog at that age(atleast I’d think). 2.5 they should be kind of leveling out chemically/hormonally/mentally wise in to their adult stage if that makes sense.

 I’d say not directly tied to hunting I notice is the gyps are all super friendly higher strung, little tighter wound lots of personality dogs. The males are always a little calmer more reserved and pay a little more attention to what’s going on. But there is always 1 “Scooby” in every litter. Scooby is the exact kind of puppy he sounds like. Scooby makes a dog in the long run typically. but he is going to make you beat your head against a wall. My Spoon dog is last years Scooby, he’s 15 months old and I’m still beating my head with him. I think he’s going to be an all day trail dog when it’s all said and done though.


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Do y’all pay much attention to puppies outside of the obvious things like color, build, independence, etc.? Like the other day I scattered a hand full kibbles out on the ground and forced my 7 week old pups to find it on their own. There’s one female that I just seem to have a chemistry with. For sure she wouldn’t be my pick color wise, but everything about her is just spot on for me. She had found some kibble and it just so happened there were 2-3 pieces right there. Another pup came up and wanted to get some and she never growled or anything, but she leaned and shouldered that other pup and kept it away from her prize. That sounds simple, but to me it tells me she is a quick thinker on her feet. There was a whole lot of thought process in that split second. I smell food and here it is. There’s more than one here. No this mine, I found it. Go get your own. Physically using her body with leverage to hold off the advancement of her sibling. Getting that cleaned up and hurrying off to hustle for more. Those tools will absolutely be necessary for her make MY kind of hog dog. The drive to locate. The locating and taking care of business while still being aware of what else is happening around her. The mindset of ok this task is done let me get gone and hustle another. Which is what she needs to relay. I know this is simple but it sure is fun to me to watch it.


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I’ve got a female jagd that thinks she’s a male, she goes around marking behind every other dog in the yard. She’s also the smallest dog on the yard and tries to bully the others into submission, that used to work until my heideterrier pup got close to a year old, then we had what I call a reversal of fortune.

Lol sometimes it bees like that as they say!


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Yessir I like to hide kibble too or if I got old hot dogs feed them to them a couple days then do weenie drags
That’s usually how I settle on which pups I want out of my litters then let my hunting buddies pick from there


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Tdog I do like when the pups will box them out of their prize/food without getting an attitude/growling I can’t stand a fighting dog they don’t last here…I always win one way or another


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I’m with you, fighting is the fast track to leaving here.


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Anybody have any personal opinions or beliefs on pink nosed/footed dogs?  Not specific to a yellow dog or real tight bred dogs. Just any ole cur dog that might would come out that way.


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That’s definitely a pigmentation issue, much the same as the albino gene. There was a thread on here a while back and I don’t remember now who it was. Someone had some yella pups and some of them were red nosed instead of the traditional black. I won’t lie, they were purdy. Of course you know that the common breeds used for this sport are traditionally black nosed so pink would be an indication of a problem to me. Pink pads are common with a lot dogs that have white feet or socks. I’m not convinced that one is necessarily better than the other. I’ve seen good and bad in both. Everyone always said horses with black feet had better feet than the white ones. I didn’t find that the quality of the foot was determined by the color. I’ve seen good and bad in both. My least favorite horse feet were the ones that were partially white and black. While I don’t think one is better than the other, they are a little different textured and the biggest part of the time, if a hoof splits it’s gonna split where the white and the black meet. Sorry I got off subject a little.

So my straight answer would be that pink noses and feet would definitely be a concern for me.


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Pink nosed cur dogs?
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Found it. Found lots of post from a decade ago as well of people selling cur dog pups and mentioning the pink nose as if it was a selling point. Mostly yella dogs though.


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You know you will really have something when you get bluenose yella curs!

I actually know 3 people on Facebook that’ll claim they got em lmao


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Lol

Had a couple pink nosed cur gyps (outside blood) and they seemed to always have something wrong with them real hard keepers *just my own personal experience with them
That being said the guy I got them from’s best cow dogs had the pink nose/mask


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We need real tight to a dog one time and had cur dogs with green/hazle eyes too tho instead of the traditional brown eyes you’d expect in a cur dog


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