American Bulldogs

Hi, Tony, I don’t know if I’ve met you before officially.

I’m Obie Semmes.

I saw a hunt on here with you a few months ago it seems. I think it was with Mike? I think I know your wife Toni. I was one of the sponsors for Toni and Christine’s ab show in Arkansas in 2006 or 07. My name is one listed on back of the show shirt under sponsors.

Man!.... those two ladies really know how to throw a party! Lol

One of the funest shows I ever attended. Bulldog folks from all over the country commandering a hotel and a little bar across the street for two nights unexpectedly and I bet they still talk about it in that town. We partied for two days. Even had the cops called at 2-3 in morning because of the midnight bite club in the hotel parking lot catching dogs with the bite sleeve before they left!

Whew what a memory!

Anyway....

I owned a bulldog named grits that was a supreme grand champ.
He was an awesome dog. He was out of Eli (cowboy son and josh brother) and possum on sire side bred to a fully Bully from Chicago.
He caught first hog he ever saw and when they met in the middle of that pen in Georgia it sounded like a bomb went off. That dig just had it in him and many witnessed it and said the same. That started my passion for hog hunting.

Grits was a beautiful dog that caught well but was one and done. Just couldn’t breathe and reccouperate fast enough I reliezed after really getting into woods hunting years later.

I owned a josh/Sheba female I bought from lem. Her name was Shasta. She is on his website somewhere or was.. I raised her showed her to champion. Ofa’ed her hips and she came back excellent. I then sold her back to lem for same price I bought her for. He bred her... just just wasn’t my cup of tea. A little timid but I really hated her crooked bite the most. Very undershot and wry. Don’t know how she championed out?!? Maybe cause everyone knew who her breeder was. Lol

Imported a Joshua hybrid from white bandits in Germany. Lems cousins. Dog was athletic beautiful big and strong. Her name was trouble. I prelimed her hips and they were good. But as she grew she became insanely dog aggressive and then old people and children aggressive and at 18 mos the writing was on the wall and I put her down.

The next ab I got was a kinghaven dog. Long story short I’m still breeding on her today. Great temperament. Caught hogs in the woods well. Just great all around dog. Didn’t breathe quite as well as pits but decent. She died few years ago.

I imported a true grit bama boy breed dog from Sweden. Showed her to champion. Got wp3 title on her. Put her in hogs in the wild and pens. Ofa’ed her hips. She ended up a curr and a cull in the end.

I have had half dozen others I won’t name as well just out of respect and because I’m tired of clicking these buttons. But you would know the lines and the breeders.

In the end I, for my personal opinion, thought the ab was lacking for being the perfect catchdog. I know this is a blanket statement and there are plenty out there that make the grade. Scott is a great friend of mine and I have been hunting with him more than once and he produces hog dogs that he loves and the folks that get him from love.

Tico, Britt, and many others as well. I just don’t know em like I know Scott.

I just thought the ab overall lacked wind and endurance on a long hot Louisiana hunt. I struck out and am still breeding these mutts I got. The last beeeding I did was 5/8ab 1/4pit and 1/8cat.

I ain’t saying they worth a crap. But the folks that got em like em.

They mutts and they free when I breed which is rarely and I do it cause I like too and I got blood from two of my favorite dogs of the past around and things do remind me every day of those two dogs.

Btw....in all these years I’ve never sold a bulldog period. Probably spent 20-30k on showing testing buying and training em tho. I guess a sucker born every day lol