Next generation

[WayOutWest]

Good luck with them, that's a colorful pile of pups.

[Slim9797]

Thanks guys. I’m excited. Ready for them to be a year old already. She split the litter right down the middle.5 boys and 5 girls(I was originally really excited because I thought it was 7 girls and 3 boys). And I believe I already have my pics made lol. 2 of them atleast. Gonna try and keep atleast 3 maybe 4 out of this litter for myself.
   
 Boys



Girls


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[t-dog]

Those are right purdy Slim!

This is my six month old. He’s a lizard hunting fool and will work all day at catching one.



 
This is his littermate sister that my King Smitty has.



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[WayOutWest]

Man, if they hunt half as good as they look you'll be in high cotton Thomas.

[Slim9797]

Sadly we lost another sketch offspring last night. Gyp belonged to my partner Tim we called Sister Sara out may 2023 litter. She was the only one that didn’t fire off by a year old. She was real shy so Tim had kept her at his house loose to grow up and let her just be a dog.
  She finally came out of her shell so Tim took her to his pens a couple weeks ago. Last Friday night I was going to make a round and Tim couldn’t make it so I went and grabbed some of his gyps. Last minute decision I jumped Sara on the trailer.

She took a few casts to figure it out but she started going with other dogs. Her brother my spoon dog rigged a hot track and we dumped box. She ran it half a mile with other dogs and stayed bayed for 20 minutes till we got there and caught the hog. I was proud of her and Tim was happy to hear she was starting to act like maybe she wanted to work.

Last night Tim and Rhett made a run while I had some work. Sara packed up with a little older gyp and went and struck a good boar. They caught him and Sara caught a tooth behind the shoulder. Got in to her chest cavity and from short conversation with Tim, sounds like it ended up getting a piece of one lung. Vet trip was made, they closed her up but she was given a 50/50 shot. She passed about midnight last night in his living room.

Real kick in the nuts for Tim. He literally made the comment over the phone as he was headed to load up last night. “4 years in to this rebuild and I think we’re close”. We still have 4 of her littermates and Tim’s got plenty dog power coming up so it ain’t the end of the world, but dang ya never want one to go out the 2nd time out.  Part of it.


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[t-dog]

Hate to hear that. It would’ve been nice to see how she finished out compared to her littermates. As we all know, luck has a whole lot to do with this game we love.


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[Slim9797]

Hate to hear that. It would’ve been nice to see how she finished out compared to her littermates. As we all know, luck has a whole lot to do with this game we love.


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Yessir, I kind of was thinking the same thing. With her being the outlier of the 6 we kept back. Oh well, charge it to the game, and put another pup in her spot.
 


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[Slim9797]

Brought cicero to a buddies house last night to watch the football game. His old lady ruined him in 15 minutes lol.


And here’s some quick shots of the whole gang(most of em) today.








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[WayOutWest]

Sho enuf purty pups.

[Slim9797]

Went and picked up the last member of the class of 2025 for us this weekend. Courtesy of [mention]t-dog [/mention] and his nephew. She is a pretty little thing. Excited to watch her and the rest of her cousins grow. T-dog could tell you how this pup is related the sketch pups.



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[t-dog]

Slim your pups momma (Moon) is a great aunt to the sire (Ray) of your sketch pups. Moon is also a great aunt to Ranger, the sire of this new pup. Ranger and Ray are half brothers, same sire (Uno). Ranger is also Rays uncle on the bottom side because Rays momma and Ranger are half brother sister as well, both out of Raylynn.


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[WayOutWest]

Pay attention Slim, you're going to be tested on this!

[Slim9797]

Those are right purdy Slim!

This is my six month old. He’s a lizard hunting fool and will work all day at catching one.



 
This is his littermate sister that my King Smitty has.



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now the kicker just so it’s all right here for me to remembers How does king tie in to all of this?

He and I both cannot wait to get him going. I’m staring at him now in the headlights. He’s growing to be a fine built animal.


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[Slim9797]

Pay attention Slim, you're going to be tested on this!

Yeah no kidding! My brain is fried just reading that lol. Between me and Tim, we now have like 15 or so dogs that are all kin in some form or fashion. Hopefully a lot of the pups make the grade and we can keep that number up there.


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[t-dog]

King’s momma (Reba) is a littermate sister to Moon(the mother of this pup from Deputy Dawg). King’s daddy (Ken) is Ray’s uncle. Ken and Ray’s momma (Ava) are littermates. Ken is a half brother to Ranger (the second pups dad), they are out of Raylynn.


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[Cajun]

Tdog and Slim, those are some really good looking pups and young dogs. Hope they make the cut for you.

[t-dog]

I appreciate it Cajun. Slims pup looks more like an Australian cross than a border collie though.


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[Cajun]

Tdog, It does not matter how they look, it is how they finish out that counts. The better they get, the better looking they are. Your dogs have come full circle. They started out looking to be  Plott , Border collie and now back to a Walker. That is a sharp looking youngster tho.

[Slim9797]

Think we have settled on “Miley Cyrus” for the little gyp pup. To join Lulu, doodle, rusty, and Cicero out of my gyps.


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[t-dog]

She’s gonna be crazy as a bed bug!


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