Florida cur, Cracker cur, Southern Cur, Florida hog hunting in general history?

[warrent423]

My kind of thread. Good lookin dogs everyone. I believe the Florida curdogs to be more of a "type" of dog rather than a "breed". Ain't no such thing as a purebred Florida cur. They are "made" in all shapes and colors. They are and have been bred for decades to work rough stock. I will say that I am partial to the long legged, block headed types. Won't feed one that won't work "one out"

[TazD]

A few of mine!! Very good dogs to have if your looking for a rough, med range, smart athletic dog!! Koyote thats not normal for Florida Curs!! They were developed to handle the hot Florida temps and work all day. I have no problem running my dogs in the summer 20 miles if we have to. Does he have a heavy coat like Monkey?? Post a better pic of him if you can..

[koyote76]

taz good to hear from you, i will get a recent pic asap. the fl cur has found a load of hogs by himself, and is basically a one out dog.  i will find out what type of dog he is pretty soon, hes a bigger dog which usually means he needs more time to mature. i have not culled him yet and prolly wont. he can and will hit 20 miles. he does 1000 yard loops. but he cant hit 20 miles or so on the pace my cats do. they hunt wide open where he is in more of trot. hes better off hunting by himself. so far  like him. and even if he didnt hunt  i would still keep him around for security. i enjoy turning him out at nite at my house knowing i can sleep safe with him on guard.

[TazD]

He sounds like a good one!! What cats are you running?? Whats up with your lead BMC?? Retire him?? I got a couple Leopards. Bosco and Rita. Like them so far!! Here's Bosco, I'll post a pic of Rita later.

[Reuben]

Bosco is a nice looking dog...Is he Leopard cur or does he have a touch of hound?

[TazD]

Bosco is out of a Blue Sky Kennel leopard male from New Mexico, and a friends female leopard out of Fl cattle/hog dogs. No hound. He resembles his dad in size and conformation.

[rdjustham]

I've never seen any dogs that were built like that over that way... I frequent the Lake City area and have been through some of the ranches over that way, not seen anything built like that Jack dog over there... he's built good... nice looking dog, but he got a S FL look to him

My bad i meant plant city... Too many trips to georgia has me thinkin lake city..  Gotta love them Krystal burgers.. 

[koyote76]

taz, the bmc is still huntin lol. the only dog ill ever retire is my old male cat, my cats are just some hombrew stuff.

what made you swith to leps from fl curs?



sorry boys for gettin off the fl cur topic, ill post a pic of fl cur soon.

[TazD]

Koyote. I didn't switch, I still have 2 Fl Curs. I just found 2 nice Leopards that hunt and act like I want my dogs too. I'm not breed blind, its just the Fl Cur is a dog that has works for me more then other breeds.

[Ralph77]

Great thread, I just joined and have been reading yall's post..  I grew up on the edge of lake okeechobee half way between Okeechobee and Indiantown.. have had old florida cracker curs my whole life, all out of old line cow dog stock.. I really enjoy hearing everyones stories.

Mine are mostly red or reddish tan with some white on a few, My uncle used to work on the Partin ranch back in the 60's some of my dogs bloodline come from their old stock, and some from lightsey cattle company near lake Kissimee... and the other line came from dogs my dad used to use that came from the Veal family, they used to run cattle in the JW Corbett area from the 50s till around 1970... these are old bloodlines that go back a hundred years that i know of...  they are rough long winded and have lots of sense...   my uncles and grandparents would work cows all week with them then hog hunt all weekend...

[sfboarbuster]

Good to have you on here Ralph, I'm from Indiantown, live in Moorehaven at the moment

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[TexasHogDogs]

Dang man dont even look like you need a bulldog with those crackers,  Thats the kind of dogs I use to run before I screwed up and went cutting some grit out .  I will tell ya one thing there was not much running hogs then and thats were Am going right back to .

[TazD]

Ralph77. I just did a breeding with my Zipper dog that is from Hobby Campbell's stock and a dog out of my Bo dog. Hobby runs cattle over in your old neck of the woods, Okeechobee and Lorida. He is running Zippers 2 litter mate brothers on cattle for work and hogs for fun!! I have to replenish my pack. Hopefully Fancy will have a basket full of puppies!!

[Ralph77]

Hey Boar Buster I lived off of 441 near J&S fish camp...   a good friend was the foreman on Latt Maxcy ranch there and my Grand parents were close friends with Duke Tucker who owned all the land from 441 to 710  and around the power plant.. I hunted all that land and work cows there.. we used to catch cows out of Barley Barber swamp...

Taz  those are good looking dogs

[Noah]

Good to meet you Mr. Ralph, would love to see some pics of your dogs

[sfboarbuster]

I've caught hogs on just about all those places that you've named! Let's see some pictures of the dogs

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[Ralph77]

Nice to meet you guys too...

I keep trying to upload some pics of my dogs and it says its to big...  let me get my son or daughter over here to the house and see if they can figure it out, i'm not the most computer savvy person around...

[quickfire]

Hey rdjustham don't you have cur pups for sale off the dog in your cursor on Southern Airboat? I haven't owned a full FL cur yet but a buddy of mine has one out of some cow dogs in Zolfo springs that is a fast feisty pointy faced bob tailed ring neck dog that will shut a runner down. Plan on getting a pup off him in the future.

[rdjustham]

Hey rdjustham don't you have cur pups for sale off the dog in your cursor on Southern Airboat? I haven't owned a full FL cur yet but a buddy of mine has one out of some cow dogs in Zolfo springs that is a fast feisty pointy faced bob tailed ring neck dog that will shut a runner down. Plan on getting a pup off him in the future.

Yeah kinda..lol Got a gyp for my GF from a friend of a friend who had some pups over near moore haven.  My male locked up with her female and she had 6.  Im keepin 4 for now and picking through them.  I cant keep all 6 so the ones on SA are the ones i didnt like as much as the 4 im keeping, based solely on looks/size and really nothin else.

I showed three of the four im keeping a piglet at 8-10 weeks old in a big overgrown chainlink chinken pen my aunt built in Muse and they all trailed it up, one barked at it and the other two caught the little thing.  I dont mean play bite I MEAN CAUGHT!  I picked the pups up and the pig came with!  Not really what i was hopin for but hey, their momma is RUOGH and daddy used to be.  lol

[rdjustham]

Oh the short answer would be, Im keepin two when all is said and done, the rest are the GF's to do with as she sees fit, so i posted them there for her.  Thus the Kinda statement.  The two that im not keepin there really isnt anything wrong with except i like the other four better.