Picking pups

Old man I understand your point of view. I think it's sound logic. I don't put all the time into my because I have to. My main reasons for it are 1 because by the time they reach the age that I want to do live hunts with them, I already have a really good idea of whether or not they are gonna be what I've bred them to be. I have been able to see who came by the traits I bred for in the most natural way. The ones that struggle or don't fit stylistically don't get to keep eating my groceries. The schooling in the controlled environment also gives them the head start. For example, I have given pups to buddies or other people that made really good dogs. But at a year old my litter mate was being productive where their's was just another warm body for a while. I didn't put all this training into my current young dogs. They are just now a year and a half old and I could cast them and find hogs when I layed them up for deer season. They weren't but 10 weeks or so when they went and fired up on hogs on their own. No grown dog for support, no coaxing from anyone, just an oh lookie here moment and it was all of them not just one. They leave and hunt hard right out of the box. I have had an old dog that had a big shoat caught and squealing literally 20 or 30 yards away from them and they wouldn't quit baying a sow to go to the caught hog. They all figured out to leave a caught hog and go to the next one within 3 or 4 hunts. I think where it goes bad is when people don't pay attention to the smaller details or observe how natural things are as they are working with their dogs. Many people have kennel blindness. That is devastating fault to raising good dogs.

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