"Better than what I got"

I have trained lots and lots of bird dogs and quite a few hog dogs. I have had lots of champion bred dogs and some of them were national champion bred. Without a doubt the all time sorriest dog I ever owned was bred the best. His sire was a national champion and his mother was a direct daughter of a national champion.

What I have found is that "want to will beat can do when can do don't want to". Rex was the well bred bird dog and I was determined that I would break him. I could get him to point and hold birds but he really never handled that well. At some point he was going to twist off and just do what he dang well pleased. His sister was exactly the same and threw it to her pups.

Once I wised up and culled that dog and changed my methods the quality of my dogs incresed by leaps and bounds. After that when I got a dog I put them in front of a horse and they better run to the front and keep up with me. If they didn't they got culled. If you want to fool with them go ahead and be my guest. Seen lots of guys that had winners "all I got to do is get him to handle". Good luck.

My best hog dogs kind of come here doing it. They liked me, wanted to please me, hunted for me, and were hog crazy. Had some that could care less what planet I was on and no telling which way they were going to hunt. As high as food is these days I cannot afford to mess with a whole bunch of dogs. I know there are guys out there that probably have better dogs than mine but they please me.