Next generation

[WayOutWest]

LMAO

[Slim9797]

16ish year old young man came and got a spoon x Misty pup from me this summer. Had done some hog hunting with some friends on his families land and figured he wanted to try to have a few dogs.

Every couple weeks he sends me an update. I told him pack that puppy around and let him be a dog. He is doing just that and looks like he’s doing pretty good for a 6 month old puppy. Happy to see a young guy excited about this stuff like I was at that age, and not just worried about the next update of Fortnite.

Have another pup same litter with some buddies younger brother about the same age. He is doing well with her from what I hear as well. Can’t wait to get these boys and their pups out with us this spring.


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[t-dog]

Good to see


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[Slim9797]

https://vimeo.com/1047077217

https://vimeo.com/1047077099

Finally let most our keepers have a go at a live hog. Sure enough they fired off first video is rusty(My Hi-tan pup) and then the darker brindle is Tim’s male. 2nd video the leopard dog is my Doodle bug pup. Not shown is Goose, Tim’s hi tan pup. Only one I think we didn’t expose was my LuLu dog.

2 yella pups are some pups of Rhett’s out of a gyp he has. And the light brindle dog is Tim’s Tiny dog. She’s 2 this year and her and her sister are really starting to make consistent, nice dogs. We used her to help the pups along.

Teaspoon up north of Lake Charles,La has his baying hogs in the pen and sounds like he’s about ready to maybe start messing with him a bit.

Our buddy Hunter just south of us in hallettsville has his Hi Tan male that was the runt, running mock trails and finding and baying the hog solo.

Young guy maverick who’s just getting started with dogs has his male doing anything and everything with him on the ranch, getting plenty of exposure and even has him helping blood trail some deer. He is supposed to be coming to hunt with us next weekend to look at a few older dogs we have that might be able to help get him started, and we will get that pup fired off.

Clay up around Lufkin is about to start using his gyp pup. Says she’s doing real good.

And t dog from what I can gather really likes his gyp and was looking at showing her and the rest of his own pups a hog here soon.

As for the 2023 pups. Spoon is the farthest along. I can take him and my rifle and go kill hogs. Physically he’s got it, waiting on his brain to catch up now and he’s gonna be real good. The sucker can rig a hog pretty savvy.

Misty isn’t too far behind spoon. Get her around some fresh tracks she’s probably gonna go get bayed. She set the woods on fire the last time we used her before shutting down for deer season. She’s been put up all fall unlike spoon.

Tims 2 males are coming on strong. They don’t have quite the time in the woods spoon and Misty do, but they are already contributors and pilgrim is forsure going to be a really nice dog.  Bobs gonna make a dog, but he might be physically limited, right now he just seems slower traveling. I expect by the end of March we will know all we need to about that round of pups.


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[Teaspoon]

Yeap, ole Buckshot is showing the signs of an early starter. Starting this week, he will be learning how to ride the bikes and boxes and walk him into some bays, then go from there.

My yard dogs have taught him to "hunt" and now he hits the woods without them when he is let out the kennel. Hopefully, we just have to hone him in on the targeted species.

Thanks, Slim, for entrusting in me with this pup.... I'll do my best to give him every opportunity to excel.

[Slim9797]

One of 2 males out of the last round of pups named Goose. This one I sent to a young guy wanting to get in to some dogs. He come up and hunted with us Sunday. Brought goose along and we got him fired off on one of the hogs we caught after the hunt. He went right to it and had lots of action. He really loops hard and has a mouth on him. Big boy, weighed 53 lbs at the vet the other day. May or June 24’ pup.


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[Slim9797]

Yeap, ole Buckshot is showing the signs of an early starter. Starting this week, he will be learning how to ride the bikes and boxes and walk him into some bays, then go from there.

My yard dogs have taught him to "hunt" and now he hits the woods without them when he is let out the kennel. Hopefully, we just have to hone him in on the targeted species.

Thanks, Slim, for entrusting in me with this pup.... I'll do my best to give him every opportunity to excel.

Appreciate you taking a chance on him and giving me the opportunity to test one of these dogs in a much different environment than we use them in. Looking forward to hearing how he comes along.


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[NLAhunter]

That's a good looking young male

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[Cajun]

That is a great paint job on that cur dog. I swear I am going to have to tone ole Showtime in. He is making some pretty big loops.


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[Slim9797]

That is a great paint job on that cur dog. I swear I am going to have to tone ole Showtime in. He is making some pretty big loops.


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Nice looking pups Cajun. The real dark deep brindle is sure pretty. I told Tim that Sunday, we may have given away the best looking sucker out of the whole pile.


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[Cajun]

Thanks Slim. At that age all you can do is pick out what physically appeals to you. If there was only a way to pick out ability.

[Slim9797]

Got to finally start my King dog from T-dog this past week. This is the couple month old pup Thomas surprised me with after we had made the decision to do a breeding last year and then we invited him and deputy dawg down for a hunt.

Went to start him about 2 months ago and he decided to take a leap out of the back of the buggy while clipped and long story short injured a back hock/hip. He’s finally back to a point where laying up has done all it will do for him, and time to get that back end built back up.

Mid last week I heard some hogs in the neighbors while sitting on the porch one night. Figured it’s some sows and shoats we knocked out of the bottom the weekend before. Next morning late i decided to carry sketch and king over there and see. Let sketch go find them and then sent king soon as she bayed. Hogs broke. Sketch left, king stayed found and bayed a shoat solo.

Saturday afternoon in some pretty crazy heat for february he packed with the rest of our young males and we caught 3. Never saw him but at a hog after I turned him loose. He got sure enough hot after 3 and had to be put up.

Then Sunday mid morning. Everything is whooped and king packs up with my spoon dog for what end up being a pretty savvy trail job in its own right, and they ran a little 130 lb sow out of her nest, and around in circles, baying multiple times(we broke it twice. Once on accident and then once on purpose when they bayed against a road) 8 miles later in straight rose hedge country, they put her back in her nest and we got her killed.

Color me impressed King. Hell of a first 3 hunts, and a pretty good example of the difference in a dog that will do it, and one that was bred to do it.

Picture is from Sunday after we finally got the sow. Didn’t get any pictures of the 3 we caught with the males on Saturday

Now we just got to get him 100% healthy and whoop on some tracks.





And just for fun, heres 3 generations of my leopard dogs before our Saturday hunt. That was a proud moment for me there.


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[Cajun]

They all look good Slim and glad that King pup fired right from the start. Breeding does make the difference.

[The Old Man]

  That family looks like family, good hunt. Now that Lipper Walker dog may cause some variance in the color scheme haha.

[t-dog]

That’s border collie old man, lol.
I don’t if I’ve said it before and you have a good memory, or if you are just that familiar with the Walker blood, that’s exactly where that color/ makings come from. You might be amazed at how little is actually in him on paper. Of course I’m partial to the dogs that throw make a little more towards the hound side usually. So I guess breeding back to those type is what really keeps the color linked gene showing up. That pups momma is plott brindle in color and his daddy is white with reddish fawn patch work. His momma’s sister is red merle and their brother was high tan. All the daddies siblings are some variance of brindle. So you never know what you’re gonna get with this family. Slims dogs crossed back to mine show to produce a lot of color, but all different catahoula type colors in round one. That’s to be expected to me.


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[Hollowpoint]

They all look awesome Slim, I get a kick out of seeing young dogs do what they were bred to do.

[The Old Man]

  t-dog, Ray Charles could see that's Walker coloration, and somewhere along the line I heard you say it was the House's Lipper blood. That goes back to the salt in the stew saying, "if you get too much salt in the stew you can dilute it down but it's still in there" and in genetics it can pop up way down the line.

[t-dog]

That statement is maybe one of the most overlooked aspects in breeding Old Man, IMO. My dad taught me all my life that if you put something in, it’s there forever. If you knowingly breed an animal with a fault, you had better have your mind made up that it’s a fault you can tolerate or live with because unless you discard all the blood that genetically carries that fault, it is always going to be there. You may get away with it not showing up for a while, but it will show back up and it will likely be when you can least afford for it to. 


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[Slim9797]

Got word Monday, the gyp pup I sent to Lufkin out of spoon and Misty met her fate on the highway at 9 months old running her own hog. Man said 4 hunts in she had it figured out and was on her way to being a good one. Seems freak accidents are the M.O. with these dang dogs.

Last Saturday I sent sketch to a highschool boy that come to me wanting to get some dogs about 8 months ago. He’s been patient and respectful and done really well raising the pup out of sketch, so we brought him out Saturday with us for the 2nd time. Went and caught 15 head, got his pup goose started in the woods, and sent him home with sketch so he can start making some casts on his own and getting that pup the exposure he needs to make the dog he’s bred to be.
Was tough to watch her go, 8 years I leaned on that gyp to carry me and whatever I was putting out behind her to the hogs. These days, if we don’t catch one it’s not because sketch wasn’t there. Shes serving a much greater purpose with maverick helping to teach him and her son goose how to hog hunt. When ever she decides to give up the hogs for good, she will get to come home and retire to the ranch dog life.

Little bro sitting on pork



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[Cajun]

Good pics and good hogs Slim. I am sure Sketch will get Goose going in the right direction. That was a pile of hogs y'all caught.