Favorite Hog Dogs

Great to see all the guys posting pics and short stories about their dogs. We all like our own dogs for different reasons, one is they seem to fit our different hunting styles.

Larry Parker where did you get your Blackie dog? I know he kind of started the Parker dogs for you, just curious if you bred him or got him somewhere? We have talked before on your board about him being a producer. I never got pups from my Dixie female, but I have seen good dogs that just never produced much. Blackie seemed to be very prepotent as he seemed to produce a high percentage of good dogs out of different females.

One of the best male dogs I ever saw in the woods was a dog named BJ. He hunted out good, had an excellent nose, could wind or trail, was a little rough but would bay a bad hog and catch with the catchdog. I mean he was a REAL good dog for years. The guy that owned him bred him to hog dogs, cow dogs, bird dogs, hounds, bulldogs, etc. I bet he was bred 50 times over about 8-9 years. Bred to some good dogs too as the guys with females wanted pups like that male, but none of the pups ever turned out anything close to the old dog. Most were culled.

I think this just shows how peculiar genetics and breeding can be........