like already mentioned nothing stays the same and not everyone likes the same type of dog...
I knew a man who got a dog from me who caught over 250 hogs with that dog in one year...he thought that that dog was ok and sold him back to me for the same price because he was whipping up on his cow dogs...I thought the dog was a better than average dog but he didn't...He also had a catahoula that was a great cow dog and a great hog dog in his eyes but I wouldn't have fed that dog because I am not into cow dogs and I saw where that dog lacked as a hog dog...
Several guys had some of my dogs after I got out of hog hunting for a little while, and several didn't like the long range stick with the track no matter what type of dogs they were...they also didn't like the dogs to open some on track...it took me about 20 years to get them like that and I wouldn't feed the kind of dogs those guys liked...but that is just how it is...
another liked to keep one of these dogs on the boat as a winding dog but would only send the other dogs and not the winding dog because he wouldn't quit a hog if the hog broke bay or if there were more hogs the dog would relay...definitely not the dogs for a poacher...
he had the nose that the other dogs lacked...
no one appreciates a line of dogs like the breeder of that line or maybe another true dog man that appreciates a good dog no matter the bloodline or who/where the dog comes from...
but in the future I believe that it will be dogs that bark little and catch a lot...not necessarily short range dogs but dogs that will not let a hog break when 2 or 3 of these type of dogs get to a big boar at about the same time...whether he is running or laid up in his bed...
Mouth and finding ability are very important to me but the whole package is the most important and that is what we all should be striving for...
