............Let me start by saying any part I have in this discussion is my opinion and is all in good humor. A little pot stirring yes, but not really bashing.
Also there is WAY more to Cur dogs than the Color Yellow.....just wanted to get that straight.
So after seeing post after post and comment after comment where people bash hounds I wanted to stand up for the ol flop eared dog and give another angle on them.
People on here are about 80% yella dog fans with the other breeds filling the rest of the small %. Nothing wrong with ybc but, I'm a fan myself. what about hounds
Hounds, called babblers, dumb, slow, weak ect. but How many times has a person ever bred a cur to hound to get more nose? more hunt? more bottom? more range? in there hounds. Never, but what do you breed a cur dog to if you need those things = Hounds 9 out of 10 times
How many big game outfitters make there living using curs? How many with hounds = most probably 95% or better. These guys either catch the game or the kids don't eat, there not out there to listen to dogs babble, it's do or die
This is a hog hunting web site as you know. Hogs are livestock not really big game..... but I will play. I only know one guy who hunts big game with dogs. Cougars and Bears. He's not an outfitter but the goal is the same. He actually has a Wethorfords Ben bred Cur dog that contributes allot to getting the game treed. His cur cannot compete with his hounds in cold trailing, but then again weathorfords been bred dogs are not known or bred for thier cold nose.How many curs where used in the west and north west to track down killer bears and lions that were destroying ranch stock as this country was being founded? Can you name a single famous big game hunter who ran a pack of curs = nope, how about hounds = to many to list, ever heard of Ben Lilly?
You mentioned the west and northwest but what about the South. Plenty of Cur dogs were being used to track and kill problem bears and cougars on the parts of the frontier that had cur dogs. Florida, Luisiana, Texas. There is a great example in the big thicket legacy if you've ever read that book. Also you cannot forget about the mountain Cur and the American Leopard Cur which recently was changed to the American Leopard Hound 
They get used on big game all the time, exp. bears What breed of dog was first brought to Africa to hunt dangerous big cats= hounds
The rodesian ridgeback? Hunts more like a Cur than a hound in my opinionWhat dog has been used to track men who HAD to be caught killers, rapist escaped from prisons = hounds
I looked on a web site not long ago of a fella who had at the time one of the best Yella dogs alive according to those in the know, guess what in every single pic where there were hogs bayed I noticed in the back ground or off to the side one thing = Hounds
I can't really comment not knowing about any of those dogs. Maybe he had a good freind that liked hounds??Go anywhere in the world you find hounds hunting, be it big game or small, fast or slow, tough or weak. Look far back into these curs and you find hound blood lurking in there some where I bet.
If the rest of the world had cur dogs, they would be using them. Cur dogs originated in the USA after the rest of the world was colinated. Why do you never hear about people importing hounds into Australia from USA to hunt hogs? Because they are not doing it. They are doing it with Cur dogs.[/color]
Curs can hunt, we all know that. But hounds are what is used when conditions are rough, game is hard to find, trails are cold, or the game in question must be to be caught no matter what.
Hounds = The original hunting dog!
