"Blue" Lacy

My opinions:
35 years ago a man name Ed Miller gave me a Lacy dog told me put her with my cow dogs and try her. Said she would last longer and be in the front. I told him i would but she was so damn ugly and inbred she probably would not work out for me.I called her " RAT" for 13 years she was a cow working machine.I did not know how inbred she was as I had only seen one other lacy and he looked nothing like her.

Lacy number 2 was bought 20 yrs later pretty good all around dog.Not anything like "The Rat" She was a smart dog and would work cows,bay pigs and find wounded game.

I became a breeder would raise about 1 litter every year or two tryed my best to send them were they had to work for a living.
Ended up selling a couple of finished tracking dogs for big money.Still have pups from one now could not register because bred a little tight.

I am the prime example of what some of yalls discussions are about.As i got older I decided to hunt more and catch less [hmmm intersting]
So I went to hunting dogs instead of stock dogs. I have always liked Plotts I even worked cows with some. But I dont think a hound will equal a stock dog in producing hogs in country that has LOTS of pigs. Nor will stock dog equal a hunting hound at finding pigs in hard country.

I have been around hunting dogs for 53 years and the most impressive hunting dogs i can remember were my dads bird dogs. If you were hunting and thought man there should be a covey over there you can bet they would check it and have the wind on it when they did. I also remember hungry pups not eating because 13 were on point at the flys on the feed. Now that my friends is a HUNTING DOG!!