"The better kind of BMC dogs seem to revolve around a” culture” or a type of individual and for the most part still dose today. BMC stock dogs were a key element of that “culture” which not only existed in history but lives on in the lives of many today."
"If a man hasn’t lived or understands that culture, it will make no sense to him. If a man understands, it needs no description."
Its that Culture that is a big part of what makes these dogs special to me because I am proud to be a small part of it and have a strong desire to preserve this cutlure. I've seen situations where a man had a string of bad luck and just about lost his whole pack; a few to hogs, or snake bites, and the rest getting shot by idiots. Dogs he's spent a good part of his life putting together, but part of the culture is stepping in and helping a man in a situation like that get some dogs, and pups or young dogs are given to him, even grown dogs given to him. But you can bet that man will do the same for his peers in the future and might have allready done it in the past. Its part of the culture and what makes it so special to me. You give away pups and you get pups its what keeps bloodlines fresh and each partner has the reasurance of knowing that his breeding is outthere to bring back to his yard for future breeding if need be. A man does not need a hillside covered with dogs in a system like that.
Skoal......I have sold one dog over the years and it kind of went against my way of thinking, but she did not suit me like i wanted. And I do not have the space to personally keep more than a few dogs, which is another story it has worked out good finacially and in consideration of my college education, but is not such a good thing for my preference of where I live and how many dogs I can keep.
. Basically I live in the City and it sucks. However, I knew she was a good dog so I chose to sell her. She has since made a good dog for the person I sold her too which is proven by the fact that she is still in his yard and probly not going anywhere. But I was honest about the deal and about the dog, and sold at a fair price in my mind. I did not have to have the money but I did need the money at the time or else I would have looked at rolocating her some other way. Selling dogs is not neccesarily a bad thing when the dog is going outside of your peers and buys you hunt,work and trade dogs with. Sometimes the price is about recouping what you have invested in the dog and the buyer knows if the dog is really what its claimed to be then the price is fair to them as well because they know it would cost that much to raise a dog and get it to the same point, not even considering time spent.
That said I do see what you are saying in your original post. I have never bought a dog and can't see my self doing it unless I got a wild hair and bought a catch dog for some reason or another.
Waylon
