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As for the Carver dogs: . . . Anybody who has a Carver dog has absolutely no idea how the dog is bred when you get way back in the pedigree. My best friend and dog partner of 25 years knew Carver very well and went to his place on several occasions. He told me on one particular occasion, that there was a Mexican fellow there who had come up from Mexico with a van loaded with dogs. Carver was taking the dogs out of the van and placing them on chains. Carver may have known how the dogs were bred (or had some idea), but they were most likely some of his stuff he had sold the Mexicans crossed with Ed Crenshaw blood/ Stu Fowler/Red Lady/Morfin, etc. Anyway, Carver would sell a man a good dog, and then make sure it was papered off something he had advertised at Stud. I had several old timers who knew Carver very well, tell me that Carver was the best paper hanger there ever was. If you watch the Mountain Man interview on Youtube, you will hear Mountain Man say the same thing. He talks about how he had Carver send him a female to use as a brood gyp, and he figured that Carver had hung papers on the gyp, but he didn't really care because he knew Caver would send him a good dog. Another good friend of mine, A. Harden, was close with Carver and he had purchased several dogs from Carver, one of them was Carver's Cowhide. He said after Maurice had died, his widow Pat, called him and asked him if he wanted to purchase Stompanato, as she knew he had shown an interest in the dog and had dogs off Stompanato. He drove to her place and said that she let Stompanato out of the house (he was a house dog) and that he ran through a yard of about 30 dogs, running loose, and went around sniffing females to see if any were in heat. Stompanato then came back to the house and she opened the door and he went back inside.
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