Great dogs

Of the dogs I considered great, mine and the first one I hunted with were the only two that I ever saw offspring from. The first one was only bred once as far as I know. In my opinion, the gyp was subpar. The best of the pups turned out to be on the lower end of average. My old dog wasn’t bred a whole bunch but he did produce well. The first gyp was a registered black mouth gyp. She was junk honestly. Her and her previous litter were given to me. None of the previous litter turned out. They had zero hunt and only some of them would even bark at a hog. Her and Clyde had a 50/50 litter but they all would at least bark. The one that stayed close turned out to be a really really good dog. Another black mouth gyp was bred to him and they had a small litter. She wasn’t mine so I don’t know how they all turned out except for the two we kept close. The male started a little slower (almost a year old)but when he started it was like he’d been doing it forever. He never was scared just immature and puppyish. The female was a Cracker Jack and was a super nice little gyp. Both finished out nicely. Then I bred him to a couple tight bred cat gyps that were related to him. That was really good. I think there were two out of several that were lower end average dogs. I don’t know if they were lesser or just never got the opportunity that the others got because both of them stayed cut up. Both of them died in the line of duty. I actually forgot about two of those. You might consider them great dogs. Man they got it done in style every time. Other good dogs would look silly hunting with them. Every now and then another dog might be there with them on the initial bay but never before. There were at least two more gyps out of that litter that were awesome. They didn’t have the bite that I like is about the only thing that keeps me from considering them great dogs. They were quick locators that hunted hard start to finish. They didn’t over run hogs. They drove a track really fast. If they started it they were going to finish it. Literally stayed bayed as long as it took for you to get there. Good noses and would grub cold tracks or wind either one. Super intelligent and didn’t just hunt but knew where to hunt, hog minded. They were real easy to live with too. I do know for a fact that the old man that had the male and female that I consider great, turned down a brand new truck for the pair. He was guiding for a guy that owned a dealership and after a few hunts the guy offered to buy the pair. This old man had money too. He turned the offer down. Finally the fella said look, I’ll give you a brand new truck, go down to the lot and pick it out what you want for that pair of dogs, he still declined. He said there wasn’t anything wrong with his truck lol. So I guess I’ve seen it both ways Cajunl. It absolutely affected my mind set towards what I kept puppy wise. To this day I’m picking females 90% of the time.

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