Message #105603

[Ned Makim]

Third pix from the start of the thread or third in the recent sequence?

I'll go for both. The third pix from the start of the thread is Betty, one of son Paul's crew. I bred her so she's the same family as all the other Makim dogs but threw less hairy and thicker than usual for us. She is getting on and is semi retired. Found and caught her first boar at 7months. Real good finder but Paul has a yardful of them so he used her as what he calls 'a smashing dog', a hard dog that will hit any pig full pace, almost gleeful about it. Betty is very masculine and not even AI has drawn pups from her. She's by Russell out of Cathy, two dogs from the old Butters line in Oz.

The third pix in the "bull boars'' sequence is Wolfy. He is owned by our mate Brett. He bred her from a full sister to Betty (different litter). He put a wolfhound cross he knew in his area over her and Wolfy is the result. I'd own him in a second and I will breed from him if we get the chance (Brett lives 1600kms...1000 miles from us and we meet up once a year  at a spot another 4000 or 5000kms from all of us for three weeks to a month in camp where the big crocs live...) Wolfy is calm, no fight or interest much in other dogs. Quiet on the truck but on the whiff of a pig (especially a rank boar) he becomes this robot dog, all business. Can find well and is genuinely tough. Lovely dog to have lying around the camp.

That's the both.
I might just say that we are all serious about our pig catching and our dogs so no one wants to muck around with dud dogs.  I'm saying that because I don't want to come across as though I am talking these dogs up. Betty and Wolfy are what we expect every dog we breed to be like. And we are not unique by any means in Australia. Heaps of good hard working dogs over here. I'm just talking about ours because that's what I know.
Cheers.