"Blue" Lacy

I take it that t-bob is saying that some people may loose focuse on the stock working ability, and focus only on things like range, bottom and hunting ability. Either that or they have yet to become aware of what stock working ability brings to the table.

Lacy man....your saying there is disagreement between the two lacy organizations?

.....The "on the books" Cur dog origin is full of nonsence myth and legend just like the Lacy dog. But in my opinion it originated from working/stock dogs that the settlers and colonist brought over with them from the home lands of Europe.
-The collie type dogs across the board from all of europe.
-What is now known as the spanish alano from spain, a herding dog I beleive had influence in the areas where the spanish settled (IE Texas, and Florida.)
-The beacueron, a french herding dog which i think most likely had the biggest inflience in Cur dog development in french settled Louisiana, and is likely the contributor of the Merle or leopard color in Catahoulas.
-There is the ever present hound as well but not the type of scent hound the Europe nobility had and used for giving chase to animals. More of a general common man hunting dog that was hunted with a style that put meat on the table. Something more allong the lines of what Plotts developed from.

This is just my opinion based research and knowledge of those people who settled the areas where cur dogs originated, what dogs existed when they came over on boats, and which ones out of those dogs, would have been usefull enough for herding and hunting to justify bringing them over on the long trip by boat.

Waylon