I was just sitting here in an idle moment, and of course, thinking of all things dog related, lol.
Well, I was just out back fooling with one of the 'houlas, and I was thinking about how there seems to be a couple prominent "anti" categories on the world of hunting hogs with dogs. One being the anti Catahoula folks. To each their own, I feed what works, however..........I hear a lot of folks attribute the Catahoula's "decline" if you will (there's still plenty of great ones out there) to the fact that people out there started breeding them for looks/color/eyes and all that jazz rather then just working ability. That, as well as the fact that the breed itself became "popular," also resulting in more breeding just for quantity. Now, let me move on to another breed, the BMC. I have been noticing more and more lately that I am seeing quite the abundance of ads on hunting dog classifieds for BMC's.....and....just as you sometimes see folks emphasizing colors on cats as selling points, I'm seeing people on alot of these BMC ads using pedigree percentages of 'popular' dogs names (the Ben dog being a big one) in the peds of said pups. I know we have a lot of die hard BMC folks here. How do y'all feel about this? Do y'all worry that over breeding by folks who want to peddle popular names in pups peds may put a damper on the breed as a whole? Or make it harder and harder to find dogs off of legit working stock when one seeks such? This same mess happened to the breed of the APBT. I just thought this would make for a productive conversational thread. This is not a breed bashing thread in any way shape or form, so anyone who'd like to throw some thoughts and input in this topic, please don't go there, and try and stay on track.
Mrs. Krystale, I can't speak on behalf of much of everything you are saying but I can speak of what I know, my curr dogs. I personally am not the worried about these curr dogs being watered down, I have been lucky enough to slide in amongst a group of men who have worked and proven these dogs day in day out for years......years before I even got into this sport.........some of the dogs that they have talked about were catching hogs while I was still in diapers and to this day they can tell you where those dogs tie into their current stock. I am lucky enough to have my hands on close to a dozen dogs ( adults to puppies) out of the lines im speaking of and I know exactly where they came from and how they are bred so I personally have zero worries about the "future" of the curr dog, as long as I still have a couple of these pot lickers in my yard im gonna be just fine on my end
I may be overstepping by saying this BUT I don't think that anyone on this site or elsewhere who is serious about the dogs they own is too worried about what the peddlers are brewing. I'd almost bet my last dollar that just like you and I, the guys who hold their own respectives lines ain't the least bit worried about whats going on in the outside world regarding dogs because they like SO many others have good solid stock within their respective lines and they they themselves have been working/ hunting and refining those dogs over the years to mold them into dogs that work and work well.
