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.
exactly papers are good on some dogs and except when people are like oh there the best no there not you can find a regular dog just as good
