Alice Texas and a leopard cur question

Briar as far as looks only, I'm looking for a leopard spotted cur with 2 to 4" hair. With 3 to 4" floppy cur ears and a nice eye stop. She's a nice looking spotted dog, but not enough hair for me. She could be. I'd like to know if she trees, open on track and has free hanging floppy ears

Cats and old leopards do look a like in a lot of ways. Leopards seem to have more hair, more tree than cats and open on track. Most leopards now a days look real real houndy and are getting slicker and slicker coated, big ears and have a hound style of running tracks. Thats why I'm looking in the direction of Alice Texas. 4 dogs came from down in that area. They became the foundation of the ALCBA. These dogs would have had thick double coated hair like a shepherd would have, but leopard spotted. Later on McDuffie wrote that he thought the leopards descended from the old style farm shepherd. Stodghill ran the ARF and was the first to register Catahoulas in the US. Stodgehill also had advertised and sold both old style english shepherds and Old style scotch collies (also known to some as old time farm shepherds) in the 1940's. McDuffie picked 30 or so dogs from Mr Stodghill in the early 60's. Now he said that they where all culls, but I doubt that. Then came back again and picked up more dogs. Cowboy Williams was his contact back then. The sweet talk strain that Fred French ran and raised was a leopard that was registered as ALC in the ALCBA by McDuffie and also as a Cat with the ARF with Stodghill. The story I've heard is McDuffie asked if Stodghill would register his leopards and Stodghill said yes, but they would be registered as Catahoulas. Funny that the leopard cur/hound has almost the same standard and history as the cats do. I believe McDuffie took what he learned from Stodghill and Started the ALC association. You got to remember to that dogs where added through out the years. A lot of these were registered regardless of ancestry and more about what McDuffie and other owners of the Registry thought represented a leopard and leopard traits....

Man I could go on and on. I love looking into these old curs.

thanks

mike