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« Reply #40 on: November 11, 2012, 09:46:00 am » |
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I'm right next to Canton, in Grand Saline. I've bought 1 dog and she had parvo when I got her home, but she ran the woods after that.
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« Reply #41 on: November 11, 2012, 10:02:31 am » |
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Its still a good time. I go every once in awhile and listen to some dog trader lies just for kicks.
Back to the thicket dogs. Alot of truth can be obtained really fast on a represented dog that hunts it's rear off and you verify it by missing hair on face, chest and inside the ears. The hard hitters will almost look like the have mange with the missing spots of hair. Also look for old scars in the soft tissue areas. That will help with the wire brush tricksters. Chances are they haven't had them long enough to try it more than once.
True working thicket dogs look the part.
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« Reply #42 on: November 11, 2012, 11:37:04 am » |
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Do you live close to Canton? I need some to hunt with, I have a few spots to hit, just don't like going alone.
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« Reply #43 on: November 11, 2012, 12:29:30 pm » |
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The first good mt. curs I got that I knew were the right dogs for me came out of San Antonio from a man named AC Zoeller...so I give the credit to him and another man named HB White from Atoscosa not far from there...Both men are dead now but the dogs they kept were pretty good and of good size...Some of the mt. curs of today are small eared spindly legged and fiesty looking are are used for close range squirrel dogs...
Those dogs from those 2 men were larger and looked more like plott crossed with bmc...the dogs were more like the old time mt. cur and at those times most called the plott hounds plott curs back in those times...
I bought 6 1/2 grown pups from AC Zoeller and I asked him which was the best one and he pointed out a black pup with brown brindle trim...I liked a couple red pups with big blocky heads and houndy ears with a good length of ear...I took these pups to the marsh and they were swimming in the salt water and hunting in the reeds...I knew I had the right dogs right about then...I had these pups out on a hunt and the black and brindle opened up and he and the others went in the thick briar patch and out the other end a rabbit runs out and the dogs in pursuit...I was on cloud nine because these dogs were track dogs and heavy brush wasn't going to stop them...They struck a hog and ran him for 3 or 4 hours before we caught him and there was no doubt in my mind about this line of dogs...HB White had mostly Texas Smoke bred dogs and he eventually sold me and old 3/4 Texas Smoke bitch that I got 2 litters from...AC Zoeller went to a world hunt in Tennessee and bought all his dogs under the tree and also he made sure that some he bought were winners in the swim competition...That black pup with the brindle trim was one of the best I had...he just opened too much on track...I bred some of that out of them but to me that is the type of dog that will go wherever a hog will go to stop and bay it...
Those 2 men got me going in the right direction back then...
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
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