Message #166263

[BA-IV]

Well as of the leopard debate I don't know much...I do know that I own a leopard dog that is out of some old stock of dogs that came from N. LA from sometime in the 1950's, maybe around the Dobie/Doby (???spelling) Hills Area ...These stock of dogs were owned by a few cowmen around that lived and raised free range cattle here and they were all pretty much just like RockinW said they were...Most all of that blood has died out with the cowmen, who most have passed on...My uncle got the puppy from a man he worked cattle with about eight years ago...The man died and if I'm not mistaken his wife wouldn't let the dogs go to anyone...My grandpa owned alot of dogs out of these but they passed on one by one shortly after he did...Looking back, I wish I woulda known alil more about dog breeding and the blood that was there...I was just a kid so my mind was else where...Ill try and get a picture of the dog I own up here...If im not mistaken, I remember a story about my Grandpa picking these dogs from a couple of guys that used the dogs to work cattle and were also used as watchdogs because the guys were running whiskey or something...Can't really recall to much from it.

The dogs I was raised around were all real dark colored, black, dark leopard and dark tiger striped maybe seen one or two gyps with a ringneck, most males had somewhat of a blocky head, really gritty, could flat work cows, and you didn't touch em unless u owned em, and don't ever recall a double glass eyed dog out the bunch, lots of cracked eyes like the leopard I own...Just my limited experience with em is all.