Question

Some really good friends of mine have had greyhound crosses a couple different times. The problem with the greyhound crosses is that their life expectancy was real short. There was no smart to them at all. They were great out in the open pastures as far running a hog down, but they couldn't take any punishment. I guess they had a thinner hide because they cut like paper and it was down hill fast when they got a cut that was pretty bad. Never had a problem with them being trashy but they were kept in hogs too. They never had a lot of opportunity to run off game unless they were just going to ignore the hogs. Greyhounds have been bred, for the most part for an isolated trait. That trait being speed, not brains or hunt, etc. I trained 3 once that were black mouth, plott, and grey hound. I never disliked 3 dogs more in all my years. Every one of them looked different, color and build, and all 3 were idiots. I did everything a person could do to gentle them down and couldn't, they were just wired wrong. When I'd work them, one would come right up to me and want to be petted, one would be a little reserved and one would be coyote wild. One would bay and work like a million bucks, another would be so so, and the other wouldn't hit a lick. But, don't worry because tomorrow was a new day and every single one of them would have a different attitude. The coyote might be the one that was all over you then and the one that worked the best would be the one that wouldn't do anything. You just never knew what you were gonna get from them.

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