Black Streak I have a question about your "finder holders" cause there are some places that we hunt that this type of dog would be great such as close to boundry lines and or small tracks of land.
Do you run any type of bay or cut vest on them or a cut collar? And how often do they get cut or cut to the point that they have to be stood up to heal? And how many do you have so if one does get cut do you have back up or are you just out until he/she heals?
Don't think I have read yet as to what type of breed or mix they are if so I missed it. Or is it just the stock that your buddy turned you on to that y'all basically keep to yourselves?
Finder Holders need to wear protective vest that's as close to cut proof as can be without a lot of weight or rrestrictions. Mine are protected from their chin to just behind the shoulder. I run vest made of fire hose material right now but have one on the way that's made out of an even lighter material that's still water proof, that's more flexible, and I couldn't stab a my pocket knife through it without pushing and turning it. I can stab a knife through everything I've ever seen with ease, even fire hose and salt belt but this stuff was awsome. Very excited about my new vest. You can see a decent picture of one of the vest I run on them in the Finder Holder thread Oconee started and posted pics of one of my dogs on.
I have 4 finder holders and 1 stag. One of the finder holders is 3/4 wolfhound. She was a result of an outcross to a really good wolfhound finder holder that just didn't work out. The entire litter wouldn't hunt worth a flip. She works well as a stag though so I kinda just consider her a stag type dog instead of a finder holder.
Good finder holders run solely as finder holder rarely ever get cut and if they do its normally nothing bad. What kills dogs like this is people running them with curs as RCDs. That's bad ju ju.
