Message #276280

[BarrNinja]

Tony,
I sure have enjoyed this thread and appreciate what I have read here. 

Waylon, I couldn't have put it better myself about the Perry dogs. The only thing I would add about them with the ones I've owned and know are that they can be colder nosed and unbelievably heat tolerant. I have owned some great dogs out of a different line but non seemed to be consistently heat tolerant as the few Perry dogs I have raised and know.
 
That 12 year old, one eyed dog is still finding and baying hogs for my son. He made several hunts with that grouchy old fart just this summer and bayed hogs with him. If there is a big boar around he will step over a half mile of shoalts and sows to bay him. Never showed him a hog in a pen until he was almost 7 years old and when I did, it was just to see what he would do. Not a tight baying dog at all but caught out after a few barks like a true woods dog. Haha
My son and I put a many a hog on the ground with that old dog all by himself over the years and is already listed as one of the great ones in my book even though Lloyd or his brother that bred him ( Hershel Perry ) would have probably culled him. Heck, Loyd would have culled him for just having a set of testicles! That's a fact.

Tony,I agree with you about other lines and dogs having the same qualities or even better in some ways. I think what makes this line of dogs special to me is all the many years of breeding behind them. The Perry's and the folks they crossed their dogs with made and still make their livings off of these dogs. The standard and time behind the breeding selection over that many years speaks for itself in the dogs I have seen.
I think you could cross em with a ShihTzu and still get a decent hog or cow dog out of em!