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crackerc
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About 5 years ago, I met a guy on the internet from Tx. I won't say his name as I am not posting this to bad mouth anyone just want to say what happened to me with a Tx dog.
He had a line of yellow curs (NOT W. Ben dogs) that he said had been in his family for years and were cow and hog dogs. Said they were silent and very cold nosed, go hunting type of dogs. But they were bay dogs, not rough like my dogs. Well, he made them sound really good, so I had to have one. I swapped him one of my pups for one of his pups. I sent him a yellow male that was a littermate to my Red and JJ dogs.
He sent me a yellow ringneck female and the guy that brought my pup back, brought 5 other dogs back from the same guy, but out of different litters.
I raised that pup with Red and JJ. Treated her like the, started her like them and hunted her like them...for two years. And she never would hunt or bay.......would just follow you in to a bay or caught hog and stand around and wag her tail. Wasn't shy, wasn't scared of a hog, just had no interest in one. Meanwhile, Red and JJ were finding and catching hogs.....
I decided she wasn't going to work for me, so I asked the guy what eh wanted to do with her. Well, he wanted her back as he had lost the mother (she died of old age) during that two years.
He also told me he had gotten the dog from me wrecked and had him in the bathtub hooked to IV's. Seems he had him out with 3-4 of his dogs and they got on a big bad hog and got across a river or something. He was used to his dogs baying from a distance. The dog from me apparently caught the hog and had no help from the other dogs and got wrecked.
So we traded dogs back even though the dog I got back still had a hole in his chest you could see inside through. The dog I got back died within a month even though I kept him on antibiotics. He just never ate well, and never acted right.
The dog I sent back to Tx, the one that wouldn't hunt, find or bay a hog.....well, she had a litter of Tx pups that year.....
Of the 5 other pups brought back from Tx, and given to 3 other guys, NONE of them made the grade and all were culled.
So I can believe it when you guys say the cur dogs are not used on ranches like they are here in Fla.
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