Professional looking job on those kennels.

  I think those hammered in finger guards are the coolest thing on the hand forged knives.

 It's always good to be able to dip back into the start of a good strain, hope it works out and you get a good litter.

  Good hunt, Great story. One to remember for sure.

 You guys are piling them up, hogs in your area better spread the word that it's time for a move.

  Last summer Ol'Grip, the Dogo overheated and died. I have really missed him, he was zero trouble and a good catchdog. Had a female pup out of him that didn't make the cut.
I may have ruined her, she was extremely hyper and I was pretty rough on her, but here if a dog requires discipline and can't stand it they are considered a cull.

  Slim you guys are on a roll for young dogs, OL'Sketch is leaving you with something to build on.

Yes, they are Plotts. They mostly come from a Gantte/Weems background.

For now that's got it covered, but it will depend on how slow, slow is.

   Those 4 pups, due to circumstance, have been given more background than they usually get here. Have turned them 5 hogs loose total, actually 4 each since I had them separated the first trip. Normally they get 1 hog or 1 coon "if" it comes handy. There is 1 of them that seems to have some extra, and 1 of them a little bit weaker. They will all continue to get equal opportunity until they don't. They are from 2 different litters, both mothers were from here, I sold them as young started dogs and retained a breeding on one of them. One litter the dad is from here, the other dad is from a very renowned hunter/breeder whose dogs have some common lineage with what I keep. So far the outside sired litter are just a tad behind the others, but when the female owner picked her up they told him don't worry if they don't start strong real early.

  The other 4 young dogs were from 1 litter and are nearly identical in shown abilities so far.
           
   The bulldog has a good chance of getting to stay here, he shows no aggression, doesn't work a chain, settled down immediately after I got him off the hog. Just like with people, his color won't bother me if it doesn't bother him. Since I never attempted to raise any bulldogs I had always cut the males I had in the past, he being from the pound was already neutered.

 Good hunt for you guys, I have zero experience with palmettos, looks like they are just thick and hard for dogs to get through.

 Well, he's fired off really good, maybe he'll learn some respect so he can grow old and bay you lots of hogs.

  Had 3 small hogs in the trailer so loaded up the 4 young dogs and 4 pups, took them to a creek bottom and tied out 2 young dogs and 2 pups, got one of the hogs out of the trailer and let them watch him run off. When he got gone turned them all loose, of course the 2 young dogs made the race and bay but only 1 of the pups made it. Went back and repeated the process with the other 4 same result, one of the pups didn't make it. The 3rd one was a good sort of hog and escaped didn't turn dogs after him.
  Fast forward 3 or 4 days same deal had 3 hogs in the trailer but took just the 4 pups tied them out, got one of the hogs out and let him go, when he was gone sent the pups after him, they all 4 made a good race and bayed hard while we made the walk to them. Back at the trailer repeated the process with the same results. Again a good sort of sow got away.  They made a good showing for their second exposure.
  I have been out of a catchdog this year but a friend of mine had gotten 2 from a pound and didn't want them both so he offered me one of them. I went and got him and lo and behold had another hog in the trailer, so took the 4 pups and the Bulldog and repeated same process from above, the pups bayed the hog where there wasn't much cover and was moving around and trying to break, we (my wife was with me) led the bulldog in and he got to wanting to go from about 30 yds so I turned him loose, when he got there he just pilfered around. I thought well we struck out with this one, then the hog ran and hit him, still he just turned around and looked at the hog, but just then the hog broke and ran the bulldog ran up and with it being a small hog he caught it by the back of the neck. we got him and the Plotts off of the hog and let him go again this time the bulldog hit the hog like he meant it although he was still caught by the back of the neck, I figure he'll catch a bigger hog by the ear, time will tell. He looks more like an American Staff to me than a pit, probably weighs about 55 lb., is real athletic. He's shown no dog or man aggression didn't try to drag me around so he has a chance, he is mostly blue, (don't know about that) time will tell.

Mike yes, Termidor and Taurus SC are identical in ingredients and strengths just different brand names and typically Taures is cheaper. In my part of the world it makes the dogs absolutely tick free. It also helps with flies and ear mites.

 I've never been able to tell Ivermectin was effective against ticks on dogs, cattle or horses other than very short term, the pour on helps against flies on cattle for a short time, and to my knowledge the dosage doesn't extend the time it stays in ones system. They did however come out with an Ivermectin product that I think they called Long Range that extended the time in the system to 90 days. But don't know of anyone using it on anything but cattle.
 Glad you have had success with it, but it hasn't been very effective in my country.

  For myself against the ticks I tuck my pants in my pull on boots, wear a t-shirt and a long sleeved shirt tucked in my pants, and spray with 40% deet Repel. The ones that do get on me don't make it to my skin until they reach my neck or face and I feel them and throw them down for seed, don't want to run out of ticks haha.   Folks say I don't know how you stand those shirts in the heat, I tell them if you get hot enough to sweat enough to get damp or wet then it is like air conditioning with the evaporation in the slightest breeze.

   I still use Taurus SC (fipronil the active ingredient) and never see a tick on my dogs after years of use, we have lots of ticks, 4 cc/ml from hips to collar, dose pups proportionally, dip the syringe in the cup of Taurus and wipe it on the top of their ears and the flies don't bite the top of their ears. With the dogs not bringing ant ticks home we almost never have ticks in the yard.
  We only get fleas every few years but use Dominion (Imidaclorpid active ingredient) treat all grown dogs 15-20 cc/ml dose pups proportionally, get it to their skin, belly,under arms, and down back, and in 2 days no fleas and they don't come back from a hatch. I have heard on here that the Dominion has failed to work for some folks.  The Taurus doesn't seem to be bullet proof for fleas nor the Dominion for Ticks.
  This is a very affordable way to treat all these dogs, can't get any of the dog manufactured meds as cheap.
 For example-78 oz. bottle of Taurus is $95.00 and has 576 doses in it, that computes to 17 cents per dog per month, that's $2.04 per dog per year.

You've sure been piling them up with those young dogs, great hunt.

  Slim I appreciate your raising but "Mr. Anderson" passed away some years ago I'm just Clue.  You're piling up the numbers with those young dogs, good deal.

  That's some real good hunts, and a good looking pair of Bulldogs, hope they make for you. I didn't know you kept Bulldogs. Lizzo is the only catchdog I recall you having.