What was it about her that made you not give up on her to soon?
I almost hate to admit this, but I went against everything I (think) I have learned over the years from the very beginning with this dog. Honestly, I held on to her for the same reason that I bought her from a known dog trader off his chain for a $100....because I thought she was pretty. Prior to owning her, I don't think I had ever seen a light yellow brindle dog and although a silly reason, she really caught my eye.
The guy wouldn't sell her to me at first, but called me the next week and stupid me, I drove back 5 hours to pick up a $100 pup. The guy told me she was started and would hunt pretty good. When I had exhausted all efforts to make her even look at a hog or get 10 yards from me, I basically gave her to my boys as a yard dog. A couple months later, she came into heat and I had to put her at a different place because at the time I didn't have a secure kennel and my other dogs were tearing everything up. When she came home +/- three weeks later, I took her along for the ride on a hunt one day. That morning she bayed a hog solo (prior to this she had never even BARKED at one), and from that point on never turned back.
I always joked that those couple of weeks in solitary must of made her mind get right!
She died due to an infection she contracted that was not even related to any type of hunting injury.
I wish I knew more about her or where she came from. I was told she was Plott X BMC. When she died, I was finally able to get back in touch with the guy I had gotten her from. The story had changed, and this time he said he had gotten her from a flea market somewhere in southern Oklahoma.
