Cajun are there certain families of plotts that come shorter eared. I don’t mean to the extreme of course but maybe more comparable to the cur types than the hound? I ask because because of my understanding of how the plotts evolved from start to present day.
Let me ask this of those of you that have hunted hounds. Has it ever seemed that the truly long eared hounds seemed slower and the shorter eared hounds were faster? Of course there’s always an exception, but in general it seems like every really long eared hound I’ve been around was just flat slow, more similar to the blood hound I guess. It seemed to me like I looked up one day and started seeing all these hounds with less ear and they were marketed as being fast and fast tracking. Most of it seemed to have started with the walkers around here and mainly with the competition hounds. Now days it seems like you can almost see a head shot of hound and tell if it is old foundation bred or more the modern breeding just by looking at the ear on them. I did say ALMOST.
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I can tell you T>DOG in the litters of Plotts I have hunted and raised,, that ear length has not been able to tell me which ones is gonna do what.. LOL... I have two brothers off the same litter ,, that dont look nuthin alike or ear length.. The shorter ear dog looks like his momma ,, but doesnt work a track like she did,, hes faster than she was at the same age comparison.. But the other Brother is way more colder nosed but can move a track faster than his momma did.. SO looking at these two ,, only one looks like his daddy but he was striking hogs before his daddy did at the same age comparison..
I then bred the same daddy to another gyp and got shorter ear type dogs than before ,, they favored more of the momma of that litter. They were some of the fastest dogs on track but also had noses that performed along the same lines as the longer ear off springs like their daddy and grandaddy from before.. LOL.. SO WHO KNOWS>>
