Papers don't make a dog!!

Papers don't make the dog, that I agree on. But like a professional field trial trainer once told me, and he trained some great Labs on the circuit, "If you want to buy a horse with the intentions of winning the Kentucky Derby, are you going to look in the classified sectioni of the local paper for your horse?"

Best Lab I ever owned had the best pedirgree possible and she lived up to the expectations of every drop of that blood. Best hog dog I've ever owned is a half plott, half mt. cur.
I believe my hog dog was the one in a million. The lab on the otherhand wasn't.

I knew I could bred that Lab to another well bred lab and the odds of good pups was pretty high. But I go to breed that half breed hog dog, tell me what in the heck I'd breed her too? I got no foundation. Picking a male to breed her to is a shot in the dark.

An unpapered dog can and may hunt the hair off my papered dogs. But they are what I choose to feed, plain and simple. I don't claim to be an expert in animal husbandry, so I leave that up to the ones that are, in my case that would be Robert Kemmer.

No matter what a person decides to hunt, they have to be happy with it, papers or no papers. And if the dog won't hunt, papers are just as worthless as the dog.