Favorite Hog Dogs

[BOBDOG]

Noah, What is the breeding on that dog?

[Noah]

3/4 Yellow Florida cur(big/catchy strain) x 1/4 English Pointer(hog dog itself).  The females are tough, the males are as tough as they get. 

[dabutcher]

i'd have to name 2, and they'd would have to be Mr. Mason's Daisy Blue and Krystal's dog Lotto.  that was my first experience hunting behind some for REAL hog dogs.  i'd never hunted behind dogs like that before, EVER.   i've hunted with some pretty decent dogs but that was definitely my first time hunting behind GOOD dogs.  i'll never forget that day for sure.  i don't know if ya'll ever felt this way startin out but it was like a light switch went off in my head and i thought "this is how it's supposed to be", dang good day for me. 

favorite dog i've ever hunted behind and came up empty was a dog owned by Derek Ensors brother.... CoCo.   i ain't got any pics of her, Krystal might.  we didn't get on any hogs that day but she was a definite workin dog, had a lot of hustle to her for her being kinda small.  didn't worry about what the other dogs were doing that dog was hunting come hell or high water.

[BOBDOG]

Got any leads on the big catchy strain Forida curs?

[Noah]

Yes.  PM me exactly what you're looking for.

[Wormy Dog Kennels]

Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!!!  I sure love me some yella!

[HogzgoneWild]

Well I hunt lacy's and cats, but I'm not set on any specific breeds, they all have their ins and outs, I like them all!!!!!!! But if I had to pick a breed it would be a cat! I like me them yella dogs too though.

[crackerc]

Good looking dogs guys, keep the pics coming!

Mike, they used to do the same thing down here in Fla. Up until the 1950's there were no fences in Fla, it was free range for cattle and hogs. After they fenced in the cattle, the hogs still ran everywhere and they had "hog claims" where you had a tract of land that you owned the hogs on and you caught and marked your hogs. But they were still free range and the old Fla guys used dogs to find and catch them to be marked, castrated, etc.

Also its funny that you mentioned about Blue and crowds. Dixie had that very same trait. If you took a couple of strangers hunting with her she acted totally different, wouldn't hardly hunt to start with. She always had to sort of get to know you before she would hunt right. But she wasn'y ever shy, just would kind of hang around to start with and size everyone up I guess.

Some of the old Fla dogs came leopard color too, in addition to about every other color. I am sure the Fla dogs are crossed up six ways from Sunday if you could go back in their bloodline far enough and look.

Noah, I look forward to seeing your dogs. That Shiner dog sounds like she may be right up my alley....

That Daisey Blue female seems like she was real popular out there and was a good dog. Anyone ever get any good pups from her?

[Bryant]

No question, my favorite was Abby.  I hated this dog when I first started her...wouldn't hunt, wouldn't bark at a hog, wouldn't do anything except look nice and that's probably why she stayed around.  One day she somehow got her mind right and bar-none ended up one of the best I've ever hunted behind and definately the best I've owned.  Before she died, I started purposely holding her back...I would turn her out when other dogs had come back in and she would consistantly find hogs that way.  Developed a fungal lung infection and I lost her at almost three years old.



Here are a few of my others (some pics are old)...

Moon



Ginger



Maddison



Doc



Pistol

[dabutcher]

That Daisey Blue female seems like she was real popular out there and was a good dog. Anyone ever get any good pups from her?

i know mr. mason has 1 dog out of her on his place.. but i'm sure there are others around.  he said she's trying to come back into heat so i'm hoping to be able to get one of those pups.

[Txmason]

This is Txmason Daisey Blue, she 9 years old now and still doesn't act it.
I have pups from CA. to FL. and up in Maryland, one 4 year old might be coming back.
I have been trying to breed her again for a while and she took this week so might have some Blue and Chili pup around the first of Aug.


I guess her and Chili is why I stayed with the Catahoula's.

I have told people if I had 6 like her I would give the other 20 away.

[crackerc]

I have never been real keen on the leopard colored dogs, as the few I have hunted with were mostly bay pen bred and were practicaly worthless in the woods, but I do like that female. In the one pic you can really see the intelligence in her.

I hope you get a good litter out of her, I was never able to get a litter out of my Dixie female due to cancer and having to have her spayed. I always regretted not being able to get a pup out of her.

Where are the pups in Fla? Just curious if anyone close by me has one so I could see it hunt.

[ESTEBAN_B]

good looking yella dogs wormy dog!!!!

[Txmason]

Guys name is Roman and hes around Orlando.  He came firrst from NJ. and bought two dogs and he moved to FL. about a year or so ago and came by here and bought 4 more dogs from me.

Heard from him a while back and he might come up this fall.

Seems like most are out of state and few inTexas. 

[buddylee]

Mr. Mason, isn't my dog off of Lil' Blue and Chili ? I'm in Georgia. I would post a pic but I ain't real good with a computer.

[Txmason]

Lee,
Your dog is out of Little Blue and Chili.

[KDB]

€
vanilla BMC srikedog

[cward]

Bryant like the looks off those saddle back dogs and the brindle dog what is there blood.

[parker]

hogdog fellas that black dog was a hogdog ........i  put  him  on that barrhogs  track  at 3pm  in the  evening  in evedale  tx ........the  same  tracks  was  there  that  morning at a feeder  of  mr  havens ......the  morning  daylight corn was  stil on the  ground  thehog  had  fed  that  night .....turned  him  out  on the track  he  left  3  times  trailing  it  til  he  got  it  lined out ...tracked  him  up  later  about a  half  mile  he  had  the  bar  bayed  in his  bed .......i  have  seen  him  bay hogs  bedded  so  long  under  brush the  other  dogs  didn't  know the  hog  was there  til  they  got  up ....i don't  know  how  many  people  ha s come  here  and  i'd  let them  run  the  sign  til  there  dogs  quit and  come  in if  they couldn't  find  it  i'd  just  open the  gate  he'd  circle  around  and  be  gone .....  i  have  drove  cattle with him but  i  had  to put  him  on  em ......he's  the best  i  have  ever  owned  for  finding  hogs .....if  you  got  in hogs  with him  you  just  had  to leave  him  cause  soon as you  run in to  catchthe hog he  wa s gone  til  he  bayed  again ...... i caught  11  head  by  noon  one  day  with him ........and  he  would listen  like  a kid  unless  he  was  after a  hog .....

[Bryant]

cward,

The saddleback dogs are from two different people, but I've been curious if they could all be related way back down the line.  My hunting partner has been breeding his line for about ten years, and his foundation dogs came from around the Goliad area.  I recently found a goverment trapper who had a bloodline of saddlebacks that also supposedly originated around Goliad.  I was curious about his dogs..they have almost IDENTICAL markings to the others, built very similar, and look very similar, so I bought a pup from him a while back.  She immediately started setting the world on fire and I was so impressed that I tracked down a guy who had bought a littermate and bought him also.  Later, after buying the littermate, I also convinced the guy to sell me his foundation bitch (I believe he's three generations deep in this blood) and I bred her to a super-long range yellow blackmouth named Buck that I have who has also proven to be a producer.  Lots of people on this board have hunted with Buck (used to be Bud) and will attest that he hunts very different than a typical blackmouth and isn't scared to twist off and leave out miles upon miles in search of a hog.  The mother is due to whelp any day.  I have considered having these saddlebacks DNA tested to see if the bloodlines somehow match.  They are all rangy dogs, and pretty rough to boot.

The brindle dog I saw on a guys chain up in Paris, TX when she was a little pup.  I was up there for something else...I saw her and immediately fell in love but he wouldn't sell.  About a week later he called me and said if I was interested he would take $100 for her, so stupid me I drove 9 hours up and back to get her.  I don't know that I currently own a dog now that I wouldn't trade to haver her back.  After she died, I called the guy (who I had found out later buys and sells a LOT of dogs) and asked about her bloodline.  He was absolutely less than willing to help, and claimed he had bought her at a flea-market in Oklahoma.  When I started mentioning  that I would probably pay in the thousands to get back in her blood, he started crawfishing...that ticked me off and I hung up.  I wish I knew more about her...


Here's Buck...



And Here's one of the pups second look at a hog...four months old.

http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/bdavis1476/Hunts/?action=view&current=Movietest2.flv