Blue was a great dog, I was fortunate to get to catch quite a few hogs behind him. The thing that stood out to me was his ability to find one right when you were about to give up finding one and he could keep nearly any hog bayed alone.
My favorite dog that I own is Smiley, she is a half BMC half Cat that I bought when she was two. She will be 6 at the end of this year but she is the only dog that I have ever owned that KNOW what I want her to do and I can typically just takl to her. She has a very good handle, not the deepest hunting dog but still finds her own hog regularly and can wind really well when I tell her to ride the box. She is a like a kid to me a like just being around her. You never have to worry about her fooling around, you take her down to the pond to go fishing and she will sleep in the shade or catch frogs in the shallow water, go back to the house collar up and she will hunt out. She just knows what you want.
My second favorite is my little black dog Crow. He has his short comings like most but he is hard to beat in the hussel department. He just turned two and has been hunting well since about 6-7 months old. He is 3/4 BMC and 1/4 English Pointer.
