Awesome stuff Dean, that second to last picture is pretty dang neat, I’ve always had an admiration of these dogs for a long time, 16 years ago or so my mother bought me a dvd from Australia for my birthday, bloom brothers maybe, and I’ve always had a liking for them since, what’s your red dog???
Thanks Goose, I communicate a little with Greg Bloom. Actually most of my pictures on a weekly basis go up on his Face Book page. The red dog is just a dog I bred from my hairy dogs that I outcrossed in order to bring in a little more hardness and consistency to the hairy dog. He is roughly 1/4 wolfhound, 1/4 stag, 3/8 pit, 1/8 cane corso.
Had I had a good couple dane males like I have now inwoukd have never went the pit route. Not because I'm disappointed with the outcome but because he just not quite the all around dog I want out of such a type of dog. He casts great, will go 5 to 600 yards deep but not natural enough on the nose department. Not putting that nose down and taking a scent to the pig yet consistently if a pig makes it out of sight. For that though come the Great Danes. Holy hell! A good dane is a special kind of problem. Wicked hard and such a hunt drive and OCD to them. This practical stuff with a good hairy dog is almost non existent with a decent Dane. Drop one of these Danes in pig country and he's gone. You get him back when he finds an pig and you get to the catch. I like to tie my pigs and sale them. I hunt by myself almost always. Very hard to get a Dane off a pig when you have taken possession of the pig. They are so OCD and have so much hatred for pigs and so hard its unreal. Got to really work with them at home and following commands in order to tie pigs by yourself when you use such an mentality of dog and such big strong basterds. We have since crossed our hairy dogs to the Dane and have hairy dogs that now hunt really hard but are practical. Hunt like a dane, role out like a hairy dog after the catch, and not so OCD crazy that makes tying by yourself such a headache. I'll never not have such Danes again. They are awsome for stabbing and do everything and have the strength and stamina needed to back up that hardness when caught way out in the woods.
