What part of Fla are you in? I have had Fla curs for almost 30 years. I managed ranches for several years and have used these dogs on both cattle and hogs. It is my opinion that the Fla curs seem to be rougher, as a breed, than most of the other curs. Some have bulldog in them I am sure, but a lot of the cattlemen don't want bulldog in them. I for one have spent years trying to get some of the bite bred OUT of mine. My old dogs used to be "bark once or twice and catch".....about ANY hog. After sewing and stapling dogs, vet bills, dogs out of commission for weeks, etc, and doing this for 20 years, I decided there must be a better way. Sure, you will catch a lot of hogs with the rough dogs, but it only takes one bad hog to put you out of commission too........
Here is a pic of my Monkey dog. He is 6 1/2 years old.
This is my Spur dog. He is sired by Monkey and out of one of my females, and is 5 years old. Note the white ringneck, white chest and feet. I get a lot of ringnecks in my dogs.
I also get a lot of red dogs. This is Scarlet.
When i get settled in Groveland i will find the pictures i have of the yellow black mouth curs i was inbreeding back there, that white ring neck, loose skin under chin is a dead ringer to them except there heads were not quite as blocky but close, they were from Jude Hart and Lavon davis's dogs, which Hart brought from Florida to the east texas big thicket, they hunted more like hounds than curs i had seen up to then, would roll out until they found a hog, silent on track and could trail up a hog, this was 30 years ago too by the way before the internet, how is Monkey bred as far back as you can tell, there is way way to much resemblance to Jude harts dogs for there not to be a connection, when u see the picture of Whitey and Buttler i am sure you will see it too, soon as i opened this post i saw it, small world for sure, most of the ybmc cur dogs in texas are coastal burmuda dogs and stay close, very very few have dogs that will take off and windsheild wipe a 2000 acre solid brush pasture and hunt up a cow, they kinda have all disapeared to the close ranged bark and catch types due to all of the hog hunters buying anything with big head and black mouth. There got to be a few left but so many now cross any ybmc to any other ybmc strain and just sell pups, there are 10 times more hogs in texas now than florida i am sure of it, anything can catch a hog now days, its not like it was 30 or 40 years ago when u had to have a wide ranging strike dog who could road all night in front of the truck trying to find a hog, times and dogs have changed for the worse for sure, thanks for that pic of your dogs, was a blast back to the past for sure. I ran a pack of ybmcs that bayed only and would not put a mouth on a hog, but if left for 45 to 1 hour on a pack of hogs and slow driven could drive them to the old pens, nowdays the curs seem like all catch dogs who hunt in front of the horse, am sure there some wide ranging ones with sense but they have to be a rare breed for sure.
