Young Guns

[t-dog]

I agree with the solo dog theory and that nobody raises dogs that turn out 100% of the time. Cajun I did pretty much the exact same thing you did with Yellow to get the litter Outlaw was out of.  I don’t know about everyone else but I intentionally put my dogs in that solo position. At this stage of the game I can pretty much tell you before I do it if they are going to be able to or not, but that’s just knowing the family of dogs. The ones that would normally fail that test usually fail some others prior to that one. Some people say I’m too picky but I don’t believe I am. I know breeders from the past that were way harder or more strict than I am. You have to have a standard though and you can’t make excuses for faults, especially the bigger ones. What one person can tolerate isn’t necessarily what the next one can.


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[Cajun]

My buddy Joe Hudson bred the Chief dog to one of his females(Shamrock) and I was lucky enough to get a male. I call him Joey. He has just been running loose and I finally took him and another 6 month old female to a friends 300 acre pen. With some other young dogs they ran about 13-14 miles. Not bad for 5 month old pups.
  About a month later I took some older dogs with Joey and Maple(2 6 month pups) back to the pen. We turned loose at 5:30 and they jumped pretty quick.  About 10:00 I toned the dogs in because it was getting hot. They had 18-20 miles on them.I had a collar on Joey but forgot to turn it on. I was afraid to tone Maple in because then we couldn't track Joey. A lil over a hour  Maple gave out but we could hear Joey going on with it. I went ahead and toned her in and she had 25 miles on her. We spent the next 2 hours trying to catch Joey but he wasnt giving it up.I told my buddy I would just come back in the morning. He spent another 45 minutes trying to catch him and he gave up. He came back that evening with 5 of his dogs to run. They rigged while he was going in and about 2 minutes later here comes Joey trotting down the road to the barking dogs. He scooped him up and turned his out. Well he had to put a shock collar on him to shut him up because Joey wanted to get to those barking dogs. He called me to let me know that he had caught Joey. We both figured that Joey had to of run a minimum of 35 miles. That kinda of impressed me.




 

[WayOutWest]

Man, that shows a lot of want to. By

[t-dog]

That’s going to a lot of dog performance wise at that 2-3 year old mark. He has that ingredient that can’t be taught called want to. He looks like he’s made well.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I’ve always said they had to be able to do it solo and I stand by that, but the other equally important part to me is to breed to a litter. If your sire and damn both come from solid litters and the sires and dams come from solid litters then your odds of success improve. Super stars are great and fun but breeding to consistency usually gets the best results.


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