Catch dog Prices?

Amen to that... and it applies to all hunting dogs..

As for CD's, I Never bought a catchdog in my life. You can get all the bulldog catch dog prospets you want free and just as many of them will make good one's as any you pay $$ for. Fact is most bulldogs will catch, you just may have to go through some and find those that suit ya. No offence to CD breeders tryin to sell CD prospects, but that's just a fact based on what I have experienced and know to be true.
A good finished catch dog,, yea might be worth payin a man something for his time, feed and the proven ability of one in the woods, but remember what he is , what his job is and how things can happen in the blink of an eye with a catchdog doing his job.

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I agree with skoalbandit...we have never paid for a cd....we find them at the pound. We just make sure they dont have any human agression and then take them huntin and send them in with another cd and they catch on. Some of our best catch dogs were/are the gentlest playful dogs we have ever owned but when turned to a hog its all business. And to say that free dogs dont last as long, we havent ever lost a cd to a hog.