I have two to start. I actually have about a half dozen hunts on my Hope puppy. She is 11 months old I think. I like her right now. She hustles and grasping the concept pretty fast.
The other one is out of my Ava gyp bred back to ole Uno. I call this pup Ray and he’s about 9 months old. If you ask me right now if I like him the answer is yes. I like him a lot but he is worrisome. He’s always jacking with the other dogs looking for something to do. He’s fixing to get started just because he needs a job. Gonna be true to type as far as this family of dogs goes. He is one smart cookie for sure. I lost all but him and one other male out of his litter to parvo. I kept them real close just so I could personally observe them. We all know when they get sick like that it could do anything from fry their brain to stunt their growth. Neither of the two ever quit drinking but they did quit eating for a few days. They also never quit getting up to greet me at the gate. I was worried for a while that they were going to be stunted but they finally had a growth spurt. Neither are ever going to be big dogs which is fine with me but will be about average size. He learns about as fast as a dog can. You show him something a couple of times and he has it down usually. I think he’s going to have a big motor and plenty of bite to stop one. I don’t expect it to take many hunts before he starts finding hogs on his own. His brother is already in the woods and my buddy says he has a lot of hustle and will bay the hair off a hog. He also said if something else starts getting rough that his pup will catch and that he is 100% committed to it when he does. Says he’s going to have to be smart about what he hunts him with until the pup is better educated. Says he isn’t stupid rough just don’t have a bluffing mind set. So I guess we’ll see how they turn out. The Sexsquatch has a pair of pups for me out of my Raylynn gyps litter mate brother and UNO’s littermate sister. I have super high hopes for those. It’s the same cross as my Outlaw (Uno/Raylynn) dog only the opposite way. They are purdy brindles and look like the could be the offspring of one of those promiscuous Bayou Cajun Plott dogs.
Ray and his mother Ava
Ray and hope
Ray
Hope, Ava, Outlaw
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