i saw a guy from fla work a pair of dogs at 1 of the ks trials , his dogs worked good but when he went to drive cattle he called them behind his horse . this cost him points . my grandaddy was from fla and they used curdogs on cattle and hogs . it was all free range until the 50's . he moved to tn after ww2 .the dogs he had as a kid were rough enough to stop stock but loose enough to let them stay bayed the same as the line i've got out of ok by way of tx . they would bay hogs and pull pigs up in the saddle with a noose on a pole to do their cuttin and markin . they drove cattle and hogs back home with the dogs leading out front when it was time to sell the offspring . the same as some still do in tx and ok . ( and tn )
heres the secret, they were about the same kind of people AND the same kind of dogs .
my granddaddy had 7 uncles that moved from fla to tx after the civil war , they brought their dogs with them .
good dogs are where you find them . if they aint bred for it you can't train it into them .
