Ears

[NLAhunter]

I like good length of ear not real big hound ear and not short prick up ears wide and lay flat to head but my favorite ears are which ever ones can constantly put hogs at end of tracks and keep em bayed there till I get there lol but I have seen em both ways I have seen some full cur kinda prick ears like dogs in Cajuns pic that could flat out do it  and some dogs with good ear that couldn't smell hog if it ran over em and visa versa

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[t-dog]

NLA  I still like those dogs of yours. I’m BIG on the eye of an animal, people too for that matter. I’d bet all this dogs are nice but that first red motley dog has a really good eye!


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[Judge peel]

Nice dogs bubba


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[Reuben]

Good looking dogs…

[NLAhunter]

Thank y'all yes sir he is making a pretty nice dog he about 2 1/2 now this coming year he should be pretty nice

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[Arkansashunter96]

Pretty sure my bluetick heard yall start talking about ears. It seems like he has the time to hit the colder tracks. I remember this summer at the lease it was dry and getting hot. Drove across some tracks and stuck him and ranger out on them ranger maybe moved it a few hundred yards never acted really interested but playboy the bluetick liked it but never really opened up just nose on the ground. I went and casted ranger and the other dogs a few more times before going all the way around the block and picked him up a mile and a half away from where the tracks were. I got the chance to see him before he seen me and his ole tail was gyrating  like he was about to explode on it. Idk could've just been the circumstances but I'd like to say he's acted interested in old sign even my walker would sometimes pass up. when they strike together they're head to head one in front of the other. Just wish I had more patients and land to see them grind out a old cold track.

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[Goose87]

NLA  I still like those dogs of yours. I’m BIG on the eye of an animal, people too for that matter. I’d bet all this dogs are nice but that first red motley dog has a really good eye!


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Them eyes can tell a feller a whole lot if he knows how to read them, birds or beast.....

[Lefty LaRue]

Cajun- how was that leopard dog bred in the picture you posted at the beginning of this post. Looks exactly like what my father and granddad raised in the 70s and 80s. Have one in the yard I rescued in high school that looks just like it as well. Most hunters I’ve introduced her to will tell me she isn’t a cur dog. Always laughed about that. Dog has got more heart and nose than anything I’ve produced in 10 years. Not sure how she is bred but haven’t seen any with her type ear that was considered legit.


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[Cajun]

  Lefty, That leopard catahoula was bred out of cow dog stock back when we had open range. I got him in the early 80's. Except for the freeze brand he could pass for a littermate of the one NLA posted.

[Goose87]

I've seen it time and again that the length of the ears didn't have near as much influence on scenting ability than it did with what was between those ears.....

[Arkansashunter96]

Goose i agree because that bluetick is a decent dog but he's pretty dull

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[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Cajun are there certain families of plotts that come shorter eared. I don’t mean to the extreme of course but maybe more comparable to the cur types than the hound? I ask because because of my understanding of how the plotts evolved from start to present day.

Let me ask this of those of you that have hunted hounds. Has it ever seemed that the truly long eared hounds seemed slower and the shorter eared hounds were faster? Of course there’s always an exception, but in general it seems like every really long eared hound I’ve been around was just flat slow, more similar to the blood hound I guess. It seemed to me like I looked up one day and started seeing all these hounds with less ear and they were marketed as being fast and fast tracking. Most of it seemed to have started with the walkers around here and mainly with the competition hounds. Now days it seems like you can almost see a head shot of hound and tell if it is old foundation bred or more the modern breeding just by looking at the ear on them. I did say ALMOST. 


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I can tell you T>DOG in the litters of Plotts I have hunted and raised,, that ear length has not been able to tell me which ones is gonna do what..  LOL...  I have two brothers off the same litter ,, that dont look nuthin alike or ear length..  The shorter ear dog looks like his momma ,, but doesnt work a track like she did,, hes faster than she was at the same age comparison..  But the other Brother is way more colder nosed but can move a track faster than his momma did.. SO looking at these two ,, only one looks like his daddy but he was striking hogs before his daddy did at the same age comparison..   

I then bred the same daddy to another gyp and got shorter ear type dogs than before ,, they favored more of the momma of that litter.  They were some of the fastest dogs on track but also had noses that performed along the same lines as the longer ear off springs like their daddy and grandaddy from before..  LOL..  SO WHO KNOWS>>

[t-dog]

Highwater, what you’re describing is kinda one of the things I was wondering about in the plotts. I wondered if the shorter eared Plotts were a little less houndy in the way they tracked as far as being faster. Not saying long eared dogs can’t be fast on track just that the shorter eared ones were maybe striking back more towards the original plotts. It sounds like you’re on the right track and that particular stud might be a good one.


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[Cajun]

Here are some ears on some of my young dogs.





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[t-dog]

Heck yeah!!!! I’ll take the ears and the dogs!!!! Those are some sure fine looking dogs Cajun. That is nice ear on them not so
long that they step on them but enough that it says I’m a hound. Very impressive.


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[t-dog]

Do you get a very high percentage of those saddle back looking dogs like the male in the third picture?


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[Cajun]

T-Dog, I get them from time to time. I've had them from the beginning.

[Semmes]

Cajun,  I’m wondering about the eye color of that dog in the third pic.

What color is it? Seems quite a bit lighter than the other three.

He also seems to be that steel blue dilute color overall.

I know you have blue sometimes.

Does the lighter eye color always come with the coat color?

Just asking because I have a fawn dilute, I guess, for first time in the mutts I have been breeding.
And it has a lighter color eye as well.

Anyway, good looking dogs!

[Semmes]

Plus...I guess he the rowdy annoying one in the bunch since he the only one wearing the bark collar!?! Lol

[Cajun]

Thanks Semme. It must come with the color. I am going to ck his sister tomorrow. Here is another Maltese, a 1/2 brother to the light eyed dog n he has light eyes too.


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