Papers!! Papers!!! Papers!!!!

I have owed bunches of bird dogs. Without a doubt the sorriest most worthless dog I ever owned was the best papered. His sire was a national champion (there is only 1 of them per year) and his dam was the direct daughter of a national champion. The only regret I have about that dog is that I did not shoot him for the good of the breed.

All the bird dogs I owned were papered. There are good dogs and bad dogs within certain lines of dogs. Just because they are of a certain line is no guarantee that they will be good. I have found the same thing with labs. I got one great dog from a breeder and one so so dog. They both had the same sire.

I have only owned 2 hog dogs that were supposed to be papered. I did not get the papers because they mean nothing to me. Anyway both turned out not to be what I was looking for in a dog and I got rid of them.

I could care less if any of my hog dogs are papered. In fact if someone starts telling me about a hog dogs papers I am going to be very cautious. More than likely they are trying to sell you some cull on the basis of papers. AND how do you know that the papers are correct?