Great dogs

I think that is a very good definition of a “great dog” Cajun. When I had what I call my once in a lifetime dog, I hunted him with a lot of dogs that people said were top tier. It wasn’t to embarrass them but to measure my dog. I wanted to see if he was as good as I thought he was. A good buddy of mine that I ran with in high school called me one time. He said hey, I heard you have a bad
a$$ hog dog. I said I have a dog and I like him, he finds me hogs. He said well bring him over here and hunt with us. So we set it up. I had an square body Chevy 4x4 at the time. It was cold and misty the morning I left and went over there. They had catch dogs so all I hauled was Clyde. When I pulled up, my buddy came to the truck and immediately looked over in the bed of the truck for my dog. He said I thought you were bringing that bad a$$ dog. I said I did. Where’s he at he asked? I pointed to the floor board and grinned. He looked and said I wouldn’t let no $hit eater ride in my truck. I just chuckled and said ok. We get to the spot we are going to hunt and I asked if this was where he was going to cast? He said yeah go ahead, he ain’t gonna hunt no way. Lol if you can’t tell, the trash talking was very much alive and well. I cast ole Clyde and we waited. Their dogs came back but no Clyde. He said what’s that SOB doing? I said hunting but we can move if you need to move for your dogs and we did. About 45 minutes in he said where’s your dog? I pulled out the old wildlife and just could get a beep. I tracked him a couple more times in the next few minutes and he was in the same direction and the same signal strength so we headed his way. We stopped about 5-600 yards away to listen and sure enough he was hitting like clockwork. Of course my buddy asked what he was doing and I laughed. I said trying to show your dogs some pork. We let his dogs go to him and ended up catching several out of the group. I think Clyde bayed every one of them except one. When we got ready to leave my buddy said “ ya know I wouldn’t let no dog ride in my truck, but that SOB right can ride in my truck anytime he wants to!”, lol. He made lots of believers like that. He never let me down. He was good on his worst days. I sure do miss him. I see a whole lot of him in my Outlaw dog. I think it’s one reason I like Outlaw so much.

I think I have hunted with 5-6 great dogs and a whole bunch of really good dogs over the years. All the great ones were hound and cur or hound and cat crosses. I think one of them was pretty much a straight cur type dog. He wasn’t pure anything and if he had any hound in him it was extremely minimal. He was a hog dog though. Of course great is just like good when your asking opinions. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.

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