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« on: November 29, 2024, 06:29:21 am » |
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This was the first dog registered as a Bayou Cajun dog back when I was into Labs. I was probably about 20 so I’m thinking around 1975.  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Bayou Cajun Plotts
Happiness is a empty dogbox
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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2024, 12:41:30 pm » |
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That’s pretty neat. I bet that dog is in my dogs pedigree somewhere!
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2024, 12:43:27 pm » |
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We’re you hog hunting any when you were into the labs? I have seen some pretty decent hog dogs that were lab or lab crosses, bay dogs and catch dogs.
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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2024, 02:16:32 pm » |
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No, I got into hoghunting a couple years later. I had a pretty good cur dog as a young teenager and we stayed in the swamp killing coons, nutria, mink and squirrels. That was what you would call a real meat dog and then from 16 TO 20 i had 4 or 5 deerdogs. Got into Labbs when I was 16. Then went to Coondogs. Actually when I was 6 or 7 I had a Collie. That dog could run a rabbit down pretty quick and caught several squirrels on the ground. I cannot remember a time I haven't had a dog to chase something with. Around my parts if I cant hunt it with a dog, I dont want to hunt it.
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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2024, 02:31:36 pm » |
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That’s pretty cool run down. I’m exactly the same way. If I can’t use a dog I’m not interested.
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2024, 09:47:24 am » |
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Cajun did your lab breeding overlap with your plotts at all? I remember you saying you had some old leopard or catahoula type dogs early on, I thought.
I had a dog given to me once. He showed up to some people’s house and was cut. They said they had checked with all the neighbors and just couldn’t find an owner but didn’t want him. Said the cut looked like maybe a hog cut. I went and looked at the dog and he was a good natured and very well built dog, good leg, deep chested, high tight flanked, etc. He was coal black best I can remember. His hair though was like the tighter coated lab. I felt like he was a lab but more refined in a lot of ways than most. Maybe he was a cross. The cut did appear to be a hog cut. I took him home and doctored the cut. I had a bay pen and showed him a hog. Man that dude was fire! He went right to work and with great intensity, style, put teeth on it, and athleticism. I didn’t need another dog so I called a buddy and gave him the dog. He made a heck of a dog that didn’t need anyone else to help. My buddy always called him a black catahoula. Maybe but I always leaned towards the lab/lab cross. Whatever he was, he was a hog dog too!
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2024, 04:04:59 pm » |
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Yes I had Labs well into my Plott years. I had a male I called Gator out of the above dog. I had a female Plott that was in heat. One night Ole Gator decided he was in the mood for a honeymoon. He jumped our 5' fence in the yard and then jumped into the 6" kennel my Plott was in. I found him in there the next morning, Well that was enough of that. I gave him a shot of Ace and castrated him on the back of my tailgate. That honeymoon was over. They are very athletic.
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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2024, 05:18:27 pm » |
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I guess that’s where the buckskin plotts originated?
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2024, 07:28:49 pm » |
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No doubt. lol Along with about everything else. They can say what they want about the two Plott brothers that supposedly brought 5 dogs over when they came over but there is no documentation about them bringing dogs over. It does make a good story tho. Just my own opinion but the Plott is strictly a American bred dog. I am not taking anything away from the Plott family. They and others did a outstanding job breeding up the Plott dog as we know it. But you can believe they bred Ole Ready to Ole Handy and whatever else they were looking for in a bear dog. Several Families had a part in it. The Cables, Orr's, Blevins and I am sure I have left some out.
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« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2024, 08:54:12 pm » |
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It’s funny you say that. Like everyone else I guess, I always read and heard that the dogs were brought over. The word now though is just what you said, created here and not brought over. I don’t know which way it was because I wasn’t there, lol. The second version makes more sense to me. I feel like they would’ve had documentation had they brought them with them, but maybe not. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. If they did bring dogs I doubt that they would’ve been ideal for the task at hand in those mountains.
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