Mellman curs

This is what I have know and a little bit I hypothesized about the two pure mellmans I have hunted with and a later one here in Louisiana.

I first heard about the mellman curs probably 15 years ago. It was from some posts of a guy on a American Bulldog board I used to frequent. He went by realdawgs on there I believe. But he posted some hunts and some pictures. And two dogs he posted were of a dog named lou and her daughter Lola.

That board is defunct but I have a screen grab of those two dogs on an iPhone3 I got somewhere.Loy was a tricolor saddle back dog and Lola was a black white blaze and white trim dog.

Fast forward a few years....I guy I became friends with and hunted with had another friend that had bought these same two dogs from the guy in Texas that had em.

We hunted with them and my friend bought them.

We hunted straight nights back then. I almost dreaded turning lou out. ....so did others.

Oh yeah, she was gonna get on hogs...but it was gonna be a long night.

Now the guy that had lou and Lola had em on consignment to my friend and he was paying a note on them.
But this guy also ran Parkers curs. He did a breeding with a good parker named tracker.

This is where the dog Nola Ben speaks of came from. That’s the one came from Cody, swinestalker.
Ben my have got couple of those pups too. I know I had an ab litter on ground at same time. Maybe 11 yes ago?

Anyway lou had way more bottom then anyone would want. But she bayed real loose. Had a beautiful loud houndy bawl. But when our rougher dogs would get there bay would break. Couldn’t send Bulldogs to her alone, as it was straight night we hunted and she wouldn’t even be close to the hog sitn and resting. Always come up empty and chasing Bulldogs around a cutover in the dark.

Looking back lou was straight hog crazy! Would run em 24 hours or more. But she never get rough or close. Just run em til they got tired and were comfortable enough to rest and she sit down a ways back and rest too. No scars, I don’t think she ever put a tooth on a hog. Be she love to run em. I also think she jump tracks a lot. Ain’t no way with the circling hogs do she be on same hog 5 miles later... way off property sometimes 10 miles. We not talking bout miles circling we talking bout ten miles away or more. Hog run her thru something fresher she like she move that track or group instead. Just too much hunt.

Lola would keep with her dam long as she could but just plain lay down sometimes 8hrs in.

Lou never be at a catch if ya caught something. Couldn’t even hardly pick dang dog up to stop the madness.

I quit hunting with her...as impressive as she was.

Now the Nola dog (half parker) Ben referenced turned out to be solid dog. I hunt with her and Cody til he got out as did I. But she took a while to figure it out. Once she did she was on. Hunted more like her mother Lola instead of grandma lou.

Lola also couldn’t resist once in a while tryn bunch some cows up lol

Never really seen that from Nola but Cody was not gonna have that anyway.

Hunted with another full mellman that was young also as well as did Cody. He was probably gonna turn out to be ok cause he as a young un had plenty of go but would just call it sometimes after a while and lay down and wouldn’t come out. You’d have to track to him to pick him up. I think they just matured a lot slower than the parker cross dogs. And if they matured to anything like Lou...you better have couple days off and you’d be hunting alone cause you wouldn’t find anyone want hunt with ya.

I to have heard the mellmans bred with the Perry’s just some old best to best non papered Texas stock dogs