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Nannyslayer
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I like dealing with friends myself. I have a deal with a friend right now. I have a red lep Catahoula that doesn't hunt like I want one to hunt. He is short range, will go out to about 250 yards, circle back and check on me then head out again and repeat the whole time you hunt. I like dogs I can cast on sign and they go find their own hog, hence why I run hounds and hound crosses. A friend of mine hunts off a mule, and he likes his dogs to hunt fairly tight.
I told him to take him out a few times, and if he likes him, I told him the price I would take for him. If the dog doesn't work out for him, that's fine, I'll keep hunting him. He's a smaller framed dog, doesn't eat much, easy to take care of, so I definitely don't mind him around. He sure is ruff on a hog too.
When it comes to a high dollar dog (anything over 500 bucks to me is a high dollar dog, and I've sold a few and bought a few 3 times that high, back in my coon hunting and squirrel huntin days), I want to see the dog in action first. If I'm sellin a dog, I take the buyer out with me to show him how they work. Some dogs take awhile to adjust to new homes, new faces, but If I take the person out, nothing is different. Same as buying a dog, I want the owner to take me and the dog out and see how he is.
I'm just old enough to remember the days of, when a guy told me the dog would hunt, it would. Too many peddlers have tarnished a good man's word now days. And it's sad to say, I don't 100% trust anyones word but my friends now days.
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