Age old topic: To Breed or Not to breed?

There is no perfect dog, just what you’re willing to accept and live with. That’s a concession and not an excuse, and it took me a good while to learn the difference when it came to what was breed worthy in my opinion.

For example, I have a male dog that is as good as anything you wanna take to the woods. Pure cast dog, but can make him take a cold track like an old hound and has more bottom than most want to deal with, BUT he’s salty and I mean salty. He won’t let a hog run him much at all, and if he gets help, he’s prolly going to try the hog. Sometimes it busts a bay, and some times it takes a vet to put him back together. That’s a concession I’ll make. Ten years I wouldn’t have fed him, but a nice find dog is hard to find nowadays. So I’ve learned to hunt him to his strengths and go from there. Breeding wise, I plan on trying to breed him to a gyp inside his family and raise the ones that really wanna bay, and then cull the ones that don’t have the kinda hunt I want. It’s not guaranteed to work, but all you can do is try.