Message #104491

[redriverslim]

The Truth about Senorita . . . I purchased Senorita from Wright in Sept. 2008.  The reason I bought her is because I had bought 4 pups from Robert Benson, started them on cattle young, and like them up to that point.  The mother and father of all those pups came from Wright.  So I called Wright and aked him to breed her to Bounty Buckskin and send her to me bred.  As soon as she got here she started getting sick.  We got 9 days straight of rain, and she got mucous, runny eyes, fever and lost alot of weight.  It was probably due to coming from a dry environment to a rainy humid environment, however I will say that she was in excellent health when Wright sent her.  She had 11 puppies and only 5 lived, but those 5 pups were healthy.  I sold 2 and kept 3.  At this point I had not tried to work her on anything yet.  When she got well and got her weight back, I took her to pen some cattle.  She would NOT WORK.  Even when the other dogs were circling, baying, bunching cattle, all she would do is run out and booger-bark for a few seconds and then run back behind the 4-wheeler or horse.  I tried her several times over the next few months and she flat out would not work.  I never tried her on hogs in a pen or the woods, so for that part I couldn't say.  I called Wright and expressed my concern, and he DID offer to refund my money.  However, a cousin of mine told me he would like to have the bitch and breed her, so I sold her to him for what I paid for her.  He had full understanding that I was not pleased with her as a WORKING DOG, but she may produce good dogs.  He bred her to Rio Concho, but sold her before she whelped.  He used my screen-name to post her for sale, but used HIS phone number.  I had nothing to do with the sale.  However, several people called me wandering why she was for sale, and I told everyone of them that she was not working.  That didn't seem to concern anyone who called, so maybe they knew something I didn't?  I told them they needed to call the man who owned her and he would be honest with them about her.  I know that he told several people who called him the same thing I told them.  The next man that bought her knew what she WAS and WAS NOT, but he stated he would try her as a brood female ONLY, based on her breeding and what she had produced, so I guess everyone was happy.  In other words, there was nobody screwing anybody else over on the deal.  I don't know what happened to her after that.  As for the 3 pups I kept off her, I gave one away to a friend and kept the other 2.  Those 2 pups stayed in the water bowl all time.  They fought the water bowl, turned it over, stuck their heads completley under water, etc.  They were not really old enough to start working anything seriously, but I just didn't like them because they made a mudhold out of my pens and you had to constantly keep filling up water buckets.  I was going to put them down, but my cousin said he would take them and try them on cattle when they got older.  I stayed mad at them anyway, so I let him have them for free.  He got tired of filling up water buckets too, lol, and he sold them to a man from WACO, TX when they around 9 months old.  He told the man the only reason he was selling them is because of the "getting in the water" problem, and this was the 100% truth.  I know this because I was standing there when he told the man.  As for the pup I gave to a friend, he called me and told me that she stood in the water bowl all day, to the point that the hair fell off her legs and her legs and feet stayed infected.  Now this is the 100% truth concerning Senorita.  I haven't added anything to it, or left anything out.  The facts are . . I was not pleased with her, but that doesn't mean she hasn't produced good dogs and maybe I don't know enough about genetics/breeding to know what I DID or DIDN'T have.  The man I bought her from did offer to make it right.  I hope whoever bought her has good luck with her and gets some good dogs out of the deal.