I have seen papered dogs that couldn't smell their own butt much less a track and these dogs were used for breeding to make better hunting dogs...
I knew a papered dog that folks were high on because he was a very good bay pen dog but as a hunting dog he probably missed about ~80 percent of the hogs in the woods...he was a great me too dog because he would follow a good lead dog to hell and back if he needed too do so...but on his own it was a hit or miss and most of the time you about had to put him on top of a hog so he could find one...yet years later on this site I saw where some folks said they had grand pups out of ole so and so...
years ago someone wrote a column in the full cry magazine who also promoted a line and breed of dogs as hog and cow dogs...but he liked to run a walker dog in the pack when running hogs...
Pedigrees...I like to look at them and then store them in case I want to look at them again 10 years down the road...I won't spend money registering dogs...
but I do know that most of the time the right papers on the right dog can bring an excess of $40,000 but that same dog would probably only bring you $500 to $2,000 for the same dog without papers...
what really gets me is those folks that will pay the big money for that dog who then hires someone else to trial the dog...but they make sure to get their name on the cover of the magazines and websites...and no credit is given to the real dog person who bred that dog...once that dog is done they buy another dog and repeat the process...not much of a challenge when buying the best...no need to train just campaign...
