Hunting Catahoulas

G'day Waylon,

I have always had a fascination with the American hunting breeds. The curs I am especially fond of and the only one I had available to me was the Catahoula.

I had known of the breed for a short while and whilst researching the breed I found there was some in Australia. I looked them up only to discover there was great variation in the Catahoulas being bred here. The breeders ask for big dollars for a pup and if I was going to part with my hard earned I wanted my Catahoula to be exactly what I like. There was also a few other questions raised during my research into the breeders/bloodlines in Australia. Some breeders, either through ignorance or greed, were turning out poor quality pups with health issues, and others were not producing a consistant working Catahoula. I also had trouble finding the background history on their dogs, some didn't want to share and some simply didn't know. I wanted to know exactly what I was getting.

I finally came across a bloke who, like me, was not happy with the current stock in Australia and shipped his own across. This is where I was introduced to the Camp a While/Diamond Cutter dogs. He was all too happy to tell me all about his dogs and where they came from and his dogs were tall and leggy so this is where I got my first Catahoula from...