Message #548380

[Semmes]

I think judge is right on.

There are lines of dogs from already established breeds that run the gamet from cur to hound that already do what you specify.

Certain lines of dogs have been developed by folks to do these certain things within larger gene pools encompassing breeds.

Throwing breeds together just tryn to compliment traits  is more of a crapshoot and one or two or maybe even a bunch may turn out. But, then trying to refine the outcome would take much work and culling and so forth.

Probably your best bet to just pick a breed, catahoula, bmc, plott, lacy, mountain cur or something and find a line that does what you describe and start there or find a person a few gens in on a cross that predictably does what you want and try that as most of the sorting has hopefully been done as advertised.

Though even within supossed perdictable lines of breeds there will still be culls and breeding is not a 100% guarantee. Just try and find someone that either would offer a replacement or a buyback of a cull or dog that hunted different from the way described