cward,
The saddleback dogs are from two different people, but I've been curious if they could all be related way back down the line. My hunting partner has been breeding his line for about ten years, and his foundation dogs came from around the Goliad area. I recently found a goverment trapper who had a bloodline of saddlebacks that also supposedly originated around Goliad. I was curious about his dogs..they have almost IDENTICAL markings to the others, built very similar, and look very similar, so I bought a pup from him a while back. She immediately started setting the world on fire and I was so impressed that I tracked down a guy who had bought a littermate and bought him also. Later, after buying the littermate, I also convinced the guy to sell me his foundation bitch (I believe he's three generations deep in this blood) and I bred her to a super-long range yellow blackmouth named Buck that I have who has also proven to be a producer. Lots of people on this board have hunted with Buck (used to be Bud) and will attest that he hunts very different than a typical blackmouth and isn't scared to twist off and leave out miles upon miles in search of a hog. The mother is due to whelp any day. I have considered having these saddlebacks DNA tested to see if the bloodlines somehow match. They are all rangy dogs, and pretty rough to boot.
The brindle dog I saw on a guys chain up in Paris, TX when she was a little pup. I was up there for something else...I saw her and immediately fell in love but he wouldn't sell. About a week later he called me and said if I was interested he would take $100 for her, so stupid me I drove 9 hours up and back to get her. I don't know that I currently own a dog now that I wouldn't trade to haver her back. After she died, I called the guy (who I had found out later buys and sells a LOT of dogs) and asked about her bloodline. He was absolutely less than willing to help, and claimed he had bought her at a flea-market in Oklahoma. When I started mentioning that I would probably pay in the thousands to get back in her blood, he started crawfishing...that ticked me off and I hung up. I wish I knew more about her...
Here's Buck...
And Here's one of the pups second look at a hog...four months old.
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/bdavis1476/Hunts/?action=view¤t=Movietest2.flv
