Slim I hunted a male that was given to me by Johnny Morton 20+ years ago. Jaime and Johnny hunted together and I think that their lead dogs were littermates. Johnny's dog was named Curly but I can't quite recall Jaimie's dogs name. Johnny always talked real highly of him though. Said both were really good but one was better on cows and the other was better on hogs but both worked good either way. The dog given to me was out of the last gyp from Johnny's families line of dogs bred back to Doughbelly's last old Male, ol' Dummy. This was a red motley colored dog with a ring neck and a hog dog by most anybody's standard. He was easy on the eye to boot. I'd be scared to guess at how many hogs I caught with just him and my old Clyde dog it was a bunch. I hunted him all around the Rockdale area and then moved to Palestine. He was solid anywhere I cast him. I also bred my old Clyde dog back to a Doughbelly gyp that my really good and extremely missed friend Johnny Biehle had. It was a litter of cracker Jack's buddy. I can name off at 4 or 5 out of a litter 6 or 7 that were way above average hog dogs. One of them I lost track of and one got caught by a hog. I like the doughbelly dogs I've had dealings with and hunted with.
T dog you just impressed me a little bit. Lots of people will feed you a line of number 2 like they know these dogs and the story but most don’t have a clue. You are very close to what I can remember of what I’ve been told so many times. I have heard Jaimie mention Johnny in the last few weekends hunting with him. Larry Moe and Curly were the 3 dogs this all started with. I believe it was Jaimie got moe and Timmy got curly. Timmy ended up with that old dummy dog somewhere down the line to the best of my knowledge too. Out of a breeding of that dummy dog Timmy ended up with a dog named Sam. Sam was a lanky muscled up solid yella dog and from the story’s I’ve been told Sam was a hell of a dog and made himself a heck of a name around these parts. Everybody wanted a pup off the sam dog. Sam went down the road and bred another boys leopard gyp right after Timmy passed and Timmys son went and picked a pup up. Whole litter came out black except for one, looked just like sam. Son picked the yella one and named him junior, took him back to their homeplace where he grew up with a beagle. He’d follow that beagle to the bottoms and bay anything that moved all day everyday, grew up wild, long story short my uncle ended up with the junior dog and he’s still here on the ranch. Dude is Rank as the day is long, one of the best dogs I’ve seen hunt though he’s about the most hard headed aggravating dog you ever met too. As many years as have gone by I’m sure the story’s have changed a little here, my uncle and Jaimie swear if Timmy was still here he could write a book with every detail exactly as it happened, I wish all the time I could have met the man I always hear about in the story’s.
in this picture are pictures of some of the old dogs my uncle had (top to bottom) Bridget, Charles(spitting image of the old same dog), and Danny I believe(the junior dog I was just talking about that we still hog hunt looks just like this). To this day everybody who was around the dogs and knows the history swears Bridget was likely the best hog dog that was walking Washington county(my uncle lived in New Ulm and was working at blue bell at this time) from the time she was 3 years old until she died from cancer at around 14. Danny I believe was a grandson to Bridget and Charles was out of Danny or something like that.
this is the daddy to the pups Levi. He’s around 13, he’s out of a gyp named summer that was out of the Bridget dog. Summer was a Blue leopard saddle backed yellow gyp. This isn’t a line of dogs with 200 dogs running around. Over about 30 years it has spanned about 6-8 generations and maybe 60 dogs atleast as far as what the 3 men I know produced. My uncle and Jaimie can tell you about 30 easy. They were bred here, raised here, and worked here. It’s what makes it all so cool to me. Thomas we are going to have to get together sometime soon. Seriously
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