I went from loving spotted dogs to loving dogs that hunted and bayed hogs. I started out believing i could take a good built catahoula and "train" it to be a hog dog. Boy did i waste some time and money... now i hunt dogs that may not look as pretty as the catahoulas but need no training. I still dont have it all figured out but i am getting there.
One thing i have learned is a good dog is in the eye of its owner. I am sure some of my favorites might be culls to others, hunt what makes you happy and screw what other people think about them. 
Travis, couldn't have said it any better myself. Very well put Sir.
I started with a rag tag group of whatever the hell I could get my hands on, culled ALOTTA dogs early on tryin to make chicken salad outta chicken chit.......... finally got my hands on a couple decent dogs, that just made the itch that much worse, I guess 2-3 or so years after I started I managed to get my hands on what I considered a hogdog, a walker dog named amos, lost him to damn snakes. I got my hands on a few decent dogs here and there until I managed to get a couple out of the line I have now and i've never looked back. When I started there were as many breeds/shapes/sizes/colors of dog in my yard as there are days in the year, now days I have 12 dogs, 8 of which are from the same line (a line that I THOROUGHLY enjoy hunting with) with another litter out of these on the way, 2 are bulldogs, 1 is a brindle curr from the Psenciks out of dayton and one is my little girls jack russell..........Like Travis, I don't feel that I am "there" or have it all figured out yet but I sure feel like im headin in the right direction and I reckon thats all that matters.
