Love your pics and write up Black Streak.
From what I read and see of your post your NOT trying to re invent the wheel but your sourcing the best from what has already been proven with natural ability which to some is hard to see or find.
Your write up shows you have a lot of passion and dedication to your dogs and you see whats in front of you.
Really like the type and style of dog you run also.
A lot of dogs Down Under have the Dane X blood but I'm not sure that the Full blood has come hunting families and your style of selection makes a heap of sense.
Again top write up mate.
Cheers
Dom
Thanks, I do have a lot of passion for this. Dogs such as a good Dane inspire me and push me to be better. Really got to be on your game to hunt a good Dane. The passion such a dog has and hardness combined with its physical abilities and traits is unmatched by any other breed I've ever hunted or hunted with. They are just the ultimate 1 out dog. Their passion for hunting is often times more than you care to take with you lol. Crossing a hairy dog to such a Dane if needing to put more nose, range, heart, or hardness on a hairy dog is best way to immediatly fix issues without diluting things such as size, agility, quickness, strength, while adding in nose, hardness, heart, and hardness. They hairy dog is soooo user friendly and such a practical dog for catching pigs, just a joy to own and hunt and take with you day in and day out. Even out in the boat catching fish or going to town or riding in a truck checking cattle. Take deer hunting with you and leace in the truck like a boarder collie, etc etc. The good Dane however is just so passionet about hunting he has a 1 track mind and is no where near as practical as the hairy dog. I love them both. I have made a commitment to being a better dog man. To hunt the passionet Boar Hound (good Dane) virtually requires it of me. It's unbelievable how little about this dog is known today. How to properly care for it and it's requirments. People think it's an apartment dweller and couch potato. Indeed they have transformed the breed a lot but the DNA is still there and manifests itself in many still today. Get one of these that is what i call a "good one" and wow! Most pig dogging Americans don't really understand how to use hairy dogs or what makes them so practical and successful. A select few do but most can't get passed the bay dog mindset and mentality or see past the common talking points to really responsibly hunt a hairy dog and see just really what a good hairy dog can do. So switch gears a little and talk about the dane the way i do and people think I've lost my marbles. They know the Dane as a yard ornimant or apartment dweller. They have never seen a decent one hunt much less a good one and just what the Dane mentality and capabilities truely are. Had a good friend tell me a few times that a Dane is harder than a pit. I didn't say much because he doesn't say dumb off the wall stuff like that. He is very reserved but a no nonsense guy. He gonna shoot you straight. So I just thought WOW, what a bold statement to make. I've never seen it. Some time later and having had went through a few danes searching for a "good one" I know now how he can make such a bold statement. The hardness and heart of a good Dane in my opinion is only rivaled by that of a pit. If me and the one other person i know of here in the US can make such a bold statement as to compare the hardness of a good Dane to that of a pit, can you imagine what the original Danes were like if today after hundreds of years of being bred by pet owners and show people for apartment dwelling dogs and yard ornimants to deliberately put a passive nature on this majestic breed as to conform them to the dane we have today. The Dane is a hunting dog but hasn't hunted in hundreds of years. Yet still searching through only a few knowing what to look for when your picking through them and how easy it is to get a good one if you could afford to buy what you found. Just imagine what the Dane once was if, such Danes as I speak of can still be easily obtained by someone knowing what they were looking for in them. No reason to reinvent the wheel. Just repair it or rebuild it, not reinvent it. For many have tried but nothing can compare still today with the 1 out performance of a good Dane. They are truely an inspiration and make me have to become a better dog man and man for that matter in order to be a good ambassador of, breeder of, and hunter of such a breed. Works already been done, seems only invention necessary is the proper comprehension of what a good Dane really is. I am still learning much about this magnificent dog called Boar Hounds. I'm not talking about the pet danes I'm talking about the hunting danes or Boar Hounds
