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
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?
What breed of dog was first brought to Africa to hunt dangerous big cats= hounds
What 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
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.
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!
amen to this one...
the best hog dogs I personally saw in the past had some hound in them...a lot of the curs would only take a smoking hot track and would pass up or quit a lot of hogs. but mtn cur type dogs were bred to be all around dogs but the main purpose was to hunt squirrel, coon, boar and bear...that was their primary purpose but just like any other breed they have been bred right by some breeders and others have bred them like fiest dogs... some are bred to be long range like they were originally intended to be bred and used and now as the hunting tracts are getting smaller some breeders are breeding short range smaller type squirrel dogs...
they say that the plott has mtn cur and others say it is the other way around...it doesn't matter to me how it happened but I do know that the mtn cur has a lot of hound in them and some strains have more than others...
