When it comes to dogs I am very observant…I do the same with the contractors that work for us, I do the same with my coworkers, I’ve been doing it for many years…some get promoted at a young age because they earned it…these guys tend to gravitate towards high responsibility jobs or the critical jobs…sometimes you see these youngsters helping the lead guys making theirselves visible and taking on big assignments…it’s very interesting watching these guys operate…
The majority only think about their paycheck and not even caring if they provide the services they hired on to do…these characters just don’t get it…when layoffs come they’re the first to go as it should be…

Some of my coworkers would say I was more of an engineer and not an operator…for me it wasn’t just about running the plant but to troubleshoot and make recommendations as to what was needed, making the plant to run reliably and efficiently and to maximize plant rates…I would say we are striving to be the best Vinyl plant in the world…so how do you gauge that, they would ask…I can’t measure that but if we do the best we can every day we will be top contenders…if you keep that mentality you will get job offers even when you have a good job…
My department won’t look for college degrees…we pick from the contracting companies that work for us…some didn’t graduate and others only got their GED…but we know what we’re getting…the cream of the crop…

I could say so much about this topic…
I will say this…it’s about having the right mindset…take pride in your work…treat the company you work for as it were your own…taking ownership is job security…

That’s awesome right there…now you know these pups are not culls…a little training here and there is better than too much…

Beautiful pups…if they were mine I would put them on a small shoats ear for no more than a minute just to see if they were born with it…that would be a nice data point to know for your breeding program…the idea is to breed natural ability or the natural inclination to want to catch a pig…
If you do let us know how it goes…

Dogs look good and so do the pups…but I sure do like the looks of Hermoine.

Good looking knife JP…

Kabar US MARINE CORP…the blade is a perfect 7”…you can't tear it up…back when I was a young man and before 4 wheelers I could chop 2” saplings to tie a hog on it and carry it out of the woods…the blade holds an edge but not meant to fillet meat with it…if I could only have one knife this one would be it…

Seems like those good ones have some common qualities


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I believe that to be true…

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…

About 3 or 4 years ago several of my dogs were having ear infections so I treated them for earmites and that didn’t help…their skin wasn’t looking as good as it should as well...i swapped dog foods and all the issues cleared up…

I had been feeding Sportsmix for many years and swapped to Value Pak and in two weeks all the dogs looked great…since those days I have used Sportsmix without any problems…

I also had a really nice female I was planning on breeding…her heat cycles were not noticeable and lasted a day most times…I started mixing our left overs in her food and the following heat cycle was full blown…

Good hog…dogs did a good job keeping the boar stopped…

T-dog…you are absolutely right on…

Nose has never been an issue for us. One we have a large population but even in the droughts it can pretty hard to smell anything. I guess I’ve been lucky enough to breed to good noses all along and maybe those were the dogs I chose because they had the nose required to get it done the way I wanted. Now bite, to me that is a big challenge. Too much and too little is relative to each situation I think. It’s a really fine line.


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I agree…
Better nose makes a dog….if you like baying sounders you’ll need very little bite…
Like T-dog said, there’s a fine line between not enough bite or too much bite…not enough bite and many times busted bays…I like to error towards too much bite…it definitely shortens the race…

I won’t own a BMC but one of the best dogs I hunted behind was a cow dog cull on account he was too gritty for working cattle…he had the best chop mouth I ever heard…when striking on a good track he would bark three times in about the first 100 yards and he would be moving the track quickly…next time you heard him it was a bayed hog…the hog would be backed up to a tree or anything that would take the heat off his rear…the dog would be baying in his face…Nugget was a beautiful reddish gold dog with lots of black on his face and ears…he had plenty of ear for a BMC…I could of bought him for $325…that was many years ago…

 Article on the last Texas Grizzly another great read.

 https://wildtexashistory.com/davis-mountains-grizzly-bear-1899/


 Great find Slim The Texas Portal is a great resource for everything from hunting stories to family history.

That was a good grizzly bear hunt story...the original story teller new how the dogs think and explained it well...

I also read the wolf stories...everyone seems to write about how the wolves became extinct back in the 1940's and 1950's here in Texas...a kid in my hometown of Edna, TX, killed a gray wolf while deer hunting in Morales which is nothing more than a country store in the middle of nowhere west of Edna...lots of woods for many miles that connect and veer off in many directions in Morales...I lived about 5 miles north of Edna and back in 1968 or 69 I got in my dads truck early one cold morning, I was driving down a dirt road scanning the surroundings for deer when out to my left about 200 yards into a big pasture were 4 gray wolves... when I saw them they had already seen me and were running wide open towards the river bottom...I was able to get one shot off but missed...I have never seen a coyote run that fast or with the smooth running action that covers a lot of ground like these wolves were doing...I've written this story here in the past but everyone keeps telling me that they were probably coydogs...they looked exactly alike and looked pure to me...there were cows and calves close to the wolves so I suspect they were dining on a calf...it was pretty wild country back in those times...

Back in the early 1980's the Victoria Advocate newspaper wrote about the Victoria Zoo having a pack of red wolves...It took me a little while to get over there but when I did I was very disappointed...these wolves looked a lot like coyotes and they seemed to not be much bigger than a coyote...later I read that coyotes were breeding with the red wolf thus further endangering the red wolf as a species...

Thanks for posting…it was a great read and the bloodhounds they used got me to thinking. Many years ago a friend of mine had a beautiful reddish yellow pup with long ears that was half black mouth cur and half bloodhound out of the penitentiary dogs here in Brazoria county…he was slender with plenty of leg under him and a hogdog deluxe…he bred that dog to a Florida cur and kept a pup that looked exactly like his sire…he was a good one as well…

Excellent dog work T-dog…make sure to keep the bloodline going because it’s not easy finding good dogs much less finding good dogs that consistently reproduce themselves…

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Reuben I been doing hydro therapy, furazone and antibiotics and its looking better just has a small flap hanging down.  It’s actually that brindle male I got from you a while back

Ben,I didn't know it was you posting…hope your dog gets healed up quickly for you…

Spray CutHeal twice a day directly on cuts for a few weeks…antibiotics for the first 10-14 days and dog will heal up nicely as long as it's a muscle or skin wound…