Young Guns

Birdslayer, it doesn’t matter what breed it is, pen dogs are seldom woods dogs. NOT ALWAYS, THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS!! Pens were originally to judge the working style of dogs in the woods, they got away from that many years ago. It happened for several reasons but mainly because the practical style didn’t suit the pen lovers. There are a ton of pen dogs that are pen dogs because they were bred to be pen style dogs or they were woods culls for one reason or another. I remember a VERY prominent Catahoula dog that won tons in the pen and was in lots of peds because of it. Out of the owners mouth “ he’s pretty rascal but he’s as sorry as he is pretty”. He said” he wasn’t worth a nickel in the woods and if he had to work any longer than the 3 minutes (I think that was the bay time), he wouldn’t be any good at that”. “But he shines like new money for that little amount of time”.

Cajun, I hate that your young dog had the hip dislocated. Hopefully it won’t hinder him for a long time. I agree though, you had to spend that money, he did his part for sure.

To me, that drive is what separates hounds and cur types. I don’t know that it’s as much the bottom is different but that the heart and desire is. I might offend somebody here, but I’m gonna say it, the purer dogs are to the cur type, the less you will get from them in the heat or in extreme adversity. I have hunted in lots of places with lots of dogs in my almost 52 years. I have hunt with good dogs of most every breed commonly used for hogs. The dogs that always mashed the gas in adversity, be it heat, injury, etc., were the hounds or dogs that had hound in their back ground. It may a ways back but was still there enough to have influence. Some people don’t want that kind of bottom or drive. They feed them so it’s their business. I personally like it, expect it, and appreciate it. Again, there are some exceptions, that will always be the case in anything. I’m in no way trying to discount or insult ANYONES dogs. The old timers new these things I believe. They used hound way too often to breed back into stale cur types to freshen them back up. Usually the F1’s weren’t their desired result, but after that they started getting back more to the original dogs they had but renewed vigor.

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