I had never really heard of a Catahoula until the bay dog competitions here back in early 2000, when I first saw them, I thought they were the ugliest things around and that my curr dog looked like a super model (no offense).
I can say that I dont know exactly where the coloring comes from in the curr dogs down here but now I am curious and going to have to ask next time we are down south to see if I can find out where the leopard gene may have started at??
This is my old Leopard Curr, she is about 13 years old and came off a ranch here in Okeechobee from family friends. Her daddy/grand momma were leopards and her momma was a black/tan out of cow/hog dogs.
She does have the double coat like Cward mentioned, if you put a collar on her you will be scraping the ick off with a knife
and if you run your fingers along her coat you can feel the difference and see a lighter coat beneath it. Her coat is also strangely oily.
I took her cow hunting when she was younger but she was never above average, she loved a hog but was rough and liked to catch on the front leg so I just kept her as a pet. She is a wanderer and extremely sneaky/hard headed. She is one that if you let her out and she thinks your back is turned she is leaving and you are not liable to see her for days. We are about 5 miles out of town and people have seen her as far as the high school, which is quite a few miles from the house. She is also the type that you can call her and she will stand there/talk to you then turn around and trot off or she may hide in the tall grass where you cant see her lmao it gets the husband every time
She used to have a blocky head but the older she has gotten the narrower her face has become…..
This is Lucy, she is a yellow dog with darker yellow patches. Her grandma had a cracked eye but was a yellow dog with a few black splotches along her back almost like a saddle.
She is real timid natured but hard headed, her coat isn’t anything like my old dog’s though.
