way back i imagine they were decended from european dogs used for boar and big game... plotts, trig hounds, stag hounds, weimerainer, bulldogs, ridgebacks, leapards... hard to say where the versatile all around cur dog really came from... but its a dying breed thats for sure... all the breeding this into that to see what it does and breeding them just to do it cuz u think itll make a perfect pup or that itll sell good.,..and ive been guilty of it too. with the exception of one dog mine are all out of a 35+ yr old line and stay wove tight, occasionally ill throw a little plot back in, recently threw some GSP in, but mainly stick to the big leggy black mouth dogs that been workin for me all these years... Lol breedin dogs is like a loaded pistol... should only be handled by someone that knows how to use it
