I started with a new company about 3 weeks ago and right now I am running a dozer backfilling slush pits about an hour outside of Encinal. That is te start of all this. All day, with ear plugs, dust mask and goggles ( they could have bought a cabbed dozer just as easy ) back and forth in talcum powder dust , my hands and feet working and so is my wondering mind. And it wonders thru every topic imaginable.
But the last couple of days I have been wondering about this. By the end of September, I will have 3 and probably 4 BMC pups all within a few weeks of being the same age. And also in the mix will be a Plott the same age. I am going to raise them all together, work them all together, do every thing together. The wondering part is, will this help the Plott be closed mouth, or will she cause the BMCs to be open? I know there is no way to know what will happen, but hours a day causes a mind to ponder strange things.
It might if she is really gives tons of mouth and is the lead strike dog of the pack, but its 50 50 or less, the black mouth curs i saw open more were usually younger started or about to be started curs that were put in a pack where there was a extremly excitable and mouthly running walker hound, the young curs could not smell the track the walker had and were giving lots of mouth trying to keep up with the walker strike dog, not been around many plotss but i dont think they tend to be as open, when i used to hunt down there with javilina dogs nobody in his right mind would use any silent dogs due to the big ranches and javalinas running into culverts, caves or dead trees anywayslol Now all the feral hogs are russian runners trained by all of the hog doggers to blast off if they hear a polaris or dog chain unsnap or a tailgate barklol What kind of dozer are you running?? We used todo lots of roller chopping with d8 cats down there at one time, all blower fans, cactus spines in your nose and neck, 2 5 gallons cans of water on the dozer deck to wash with and jump in the cattle water trough if you could find one with water by work, all the old dozers had direct drive too and tons more shifting and switching out manual angle blades cutting senderos all day, those were glory days for me as we got to take cat dogs to dozer camp and hunt at night, see any bobcats down there and how many snakes a day??? Good luck!!!! Watch out for bees and pipelines!!!! That will be a great pack all rasied together and hunted together from the git go!!!!
I know with kids, they tend to follow the majority in how they act and talk. With pups, who knows?
