Hmmm....my uneducated response?
He spent 6 paragraphs explaining a science laboratory of testing to train a catch dog...only to say in the last sentence..."what I am trying to say is"...
I don't think I missed anything Sambo. I don't come on here to read blah, blah, blah.
Doesn't sound like drifter is looking for a research thesis or Six Sigma project on catch dogs. He asked if anyones catch dog quit catching. He is not asking about versatility and all the things a catch dog can do. Tell me this. What good is a versatile catch dog if he don't catch every time?
Drifter here is where I will leave my 2 cents. If you take him hunting and you turn him into a bay like you said you do and he runs to the bay hard and don't catch- either get rid of him on the spot or don't call him a catch dog and find you one that will catch.
You called the dog a cull when you didn't know what breed it was, or how old it was. I just spent a little time explaining why one would want to know these things about a catch dog before calling it a cull. If the dog was young or young for its breed then that opened the door for a lot of different factors that could be resulting in the dog only catching sometimes at this stage in its life. You didn't have the intelligence to ask or think of this before you told him to cull it. So yeah, I used the term uneducated. Often times truth hurt and people get offensive when confronted with it. Shows insecurity and lack of knowledge when they do lol
