Message #397747

[C L]

Those are really good pictures Brandon; thank you for taking and posting them. I also enjoyed seeing old friends and meeting new ones this past weekend at the trials.

Dale Toon is the man with the run using the pup and the bobtailed dog. He placed third. The bobtailed dog is by James Camp's bobtailed dog out of a gyp that Dale got from Ben Jordan.

The young pup was raised by Rodney Spivey and turned 6 months old on the Monday after the trials. He was sired by a young dog that Rodney got from Clue Anderson from perhaps the last Cowboy and Sue litter. The pup's mother was sired by the Bear dog from Bigo and Skoal out of a gyp that has Harrison, Ashcraft and Jordan breeding.

The trials this weekend were a showcase for what I think are some of the best cow dogs that can be found; I hope that they will continue for a long time and the younger handlers will carry on the dogs and the work that the older hands have been doing.

Charles