i asked who is curtis bennett and who owned the woodrff ranch you never gave me a answer.did you not get the message thanks BIGHOGTEXASSTYLE.
Its been interesting finally being able to put some of the pieces together on the background of these black cur dogs. The last 6 or so years Ive been fortunate to hunt behind this line of dogs, and even now luckily own a few up and comers from it. Not one of us can hardly take credit for any of this as it was the old men in the past, the true dogmen that set people like us up to reap the rewards. I hunt with Big E, and he was fortunate to get a litter of four black pups out of CB which was owned by Curtis Bennet of Woodruff’s ranch. From that litter he got his old strike dog Blaster who everything in the dogs we now currently hunt is from. We always knew that CB who himself was a solid black dog, and a one of a kind type hogdog. We also knew that CB was out of Herschel Perry’s Dixie and the best dog at Woodruff’s ranch, a dog named Jasper. Many a people, and Lloyd Perry himself commented that Dixie was right up there with the best hog dogs he had ever seen, if not the BEST. From here we didn’t really know anything else. Dixie was black as the ace of spades…
Recently I was put in touch with Mr. Lloyd Perry when Ty Angel dropped my current new black off. It was an awesome experience sitting there and listening to nothing but stories and stories about dogs! For those of you that don’t know or haven’t heard of Mr. Perry, you sure are missing out. The best thing is he has a book written that talks of his life experiences cowboying, dog training and hog Everything in quotes was pulled straight from teh book. Feel free to post any pictures or hunting for a living.. A Lasting Impression by Lloyd Perry, I seriously recommend this book to any and every person who enjoys dogs and hog hunting, and mainly just an old cowboy. In talking with him I was able to find out that Dixie was actually the result of an accidental breeding. Herschel owned a brindle gyp that was the result of a black perry dog. She got bred by an old blue dog that lived on the farm but never was used as a working dog, his name was Sugar… and in referencing his book, I was able to trace the black line back through to the 1950’s.
“When I was 25 I raised a blue gyp called ol Mitzy that made an outstanding dog. Three years later I bought a young red hog dog called ol’ Junior, and for the next 10 years I raised several litters of black puppies from these two dogs. In time, these black dogs became known as Perry dogs”
“in the late 1960’s I was blessed with a talented dog named Mitzy. She was a super cowdog, hog dog, and tree dog. We treed and trapped over a hundred coons one winter worth about $3000. With God’s help we treed 11 coons in one night”
“Ol Junior was the only rough dog that I ever stay on my yard and eat any of my gravy train. Junior was a red cur dog. In 1973, I bought him as a 2 year from Mr. Billy Williams. I was in my late twenties, doing day work as situations presented, but mostly living a true cowboy’s life, which Ive always done. Ol Junior would work cattle and was alright if you were catching something, but was way too tight to try and pen anything. You couldn’t push cattle over him and if anything fought at him, he’d hit it and rip out an ear. Ol Junior could by himself find and catch the biggest hog in the woods, I do believe.”
Dad’s ol Dogs
“In 1950 when we moved to Anderson, Dad had two dogs that he brought with him ol red and ol Lou Lou. But Dad left an old, white-spotted dog he called buck there at the old Singleton house. Ol buck are was one of the few that are called fine dogs. He’d go along ways in the direction you were riding and bay cattle. Ol buck had no control and was wild as a buck deer. My dad was hard of hearing and when ol buck bayed, I would tell him which ways or where abouts he was. If he figured this was his cattle we’d ride to him. If he figured they weren’t his cattle we’d ride on and In 30 minutes ol buck would figure dad wasn’t coming and would catch up. He’d just keep slowly loping in the direction we were going and do his thing. Buck was strictly a lead dog and never had been controlled by any man
My oldest brother RB was living at the Woods place when a part walker and part cur gyp showed up. Herschel married and moved to the Crawford place. He worked for Dad over a year. Ol Buck and walker/cur gyp stayed with Herschel. This gyp was a stock dog but awful trashy(she’d run deer) Herschel raised some puppies from this gyp and Buck. The one he kept he named Big Boy.
Herschel moved to chapel hill and took a job managing a ranch. After being there a few years he took dad’s Ol lou lou gyp and raised some puppies from her and ol BigBoy. He kept 2 puppies. The dog he called Andy and the ol Blue gyp. They were both light, sand colored dogs. By and by Ol’ Blue became one of the best dogs that Id ever seen.
I worked a good bit for mr. J.C. Howard who had gotten a leopard dog from his brother in law who lived in Flynn, Texas. He called this dog King. This dog was a lot like ol Buck. He didn’t have any control and was a natural lead dog. Ol Blue was getting old and he let me raise some puppies from her and Ol King. We raised one puppy called Rena.
There weren’t many feral hogs throughout our country so I had to go hunting with other people like Buster Moore or VT Williams. VT had a dog called Rattler. I raised some puppiesout of ol Rattler and Rena. One was a blue colored gyp I called Blue. I was 17 years old , had me a rig (new truck, trailer, set of horses and three dogs) and was working at 2 sales barns and doing day work part time.
A feller in SHiro had sold out 500 head of cattle nd wanted his pastures cleaned out. Mr Jaspre Dixon day worked and had 3 pretty good dogs. I was hired to help Jasper pen this set of cattle. The first 2 days went pretty well with just the normal things happening.. These cross bred braham would flat try you. However the ones left were tough ones. They would single out, hide, lay down and the likes. The third day we worked all day and only managed to get a few cattle penned out of each pasture. This kind of cowboying went on for a week. Our dogs had their pads knocked off their feet and were give out. We had 45 head of cattle in a water trap and were fixing to pen and load these cattle. I noticed none of the 6 dogs really wanted to be cast, but were tiptoeing around real slow. When we got around these cattle and started to pen, all the dogs made an effort to go , but only two two remained in front of these cattle and it took us 30 minutes or so to get these cattle penned. Jasper had a wild, blue dog and my blue gyp were the only two working. We later raised pups from this union. Ol’ MITSY was the only one born”
feel free to comments if you have dogs out of this line. I know Boarninja, Ty, and Waylon are just a few them. Hoped yall enjoy this
