I like silent dogs for no other reason than I don't like to be teased, I want to know when I hear a bark that my dog is looking at a standing hog. I will say this about open dogs, I have never seen an exceptional dog that was open that the owner didn't wish was silent and I have never seen an exceptional silent dog that the owner wished was open. It is a trait that most people consider undesireable no matter how you dress it up.
Hmmm. That about sums it up for me!
It aggravates the crap out of me but I have a dog that opens about half the time (depends on the bitch's mood
) that ain't going nowhere. She is not in my "exceptional" category yet and maybe never will be but I really, really like everything else about her. Maybe I can breed it out of her pups
.
I have culled a dog for it when I was a lot younger that turned up in the "exceptional" category. I dont want that to happen again.
I think you can and do have hog dogs in the "elite" category that opens, bawls, cries, yips, and screams like a banshee on a track but I still dont like it. It dont mean I wouldnt learn how to live with it for one of those elite dogs though.
