I am probably older ( or can I just say experienced...LOL) than most of you guys and can't begin to tell you the changes I have seen here if Fla. I have been hog hunting in Fla since I was about 18....and I will be 50 in August. Thats 32 years of folowing dogs through palmettos, swamps, Ti Ti thickets, mangroves, etc etc.
It just saddens me to see places we used to hunt, now have houses, businesses and such as far as you can see and roads everywhere. I can remember when 192 through Kissimmee was a 2 lane road with nothing but cow pastures and orange groves...now look at it. Doesn't seem like progress to me...looks like greed.
All this talk nowadays about "going green" they should have started that movement about 50 years ago. Then maybe there would still be more green places instead of asphalt and houses.....anyway, thats a sore subject for me.....
Ninga, the Partin dogs look good. I have been to Mike Partins house several times and Roy Partins too, buying bulls and looking at dogs. I tried to breed my Dixie female to Mike's old Stumpy dog, but she didn't take. Every "true" Partin dog I have ever seen on their place was either yellow or black & tan. I never saw a leopard colored dog, brindle dog or anything else.
Here are a couple of pics of different litters of pups I have had over the past years. You can see I get ringencks in every litter.
Does the yellow ringneck on his back look spoiled??? LOL That is the Spur dog in the pic in an above post with the listed boar on the dogbox.
My dogs used to be really rough, catch on contact type of dogs and are still pretty rough. I have gone to hunting one dog at a time or one grown dog and one young dog together. I can't turn out two grown dogs or they are still going to pretty much catch, even though I have tried for less catch and more baying. One year, we caught over 150 BOAR hogs (not sows and not barrs, just boars we cut, marked and released) with just one bay dog (my Dixie female) and one lead in catch dog (her littermate brother Rock). That shows you don't need a whole pack on the ground to catch hogs.
Here are the puppy pics. All these dogs are now grown, several are dead.
