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This may be what you need, you can leave him in the yard 4-5 years no problem. (that is nearly half the life of a dog)

Jack

:lol: Yes, and my dog food bill would ...

You all make some excellent points and my biggest factor for wanting to breed him was the fact that he had learned something when he was young (what a bear was), but never got the chance to really hunt until he was 7 and still remembered and excelled more than I ever thought he would have in a short ...

If I was in your shoes the last thing I would do is breed a dog. That will set you back further then it will help most likely.

Become a hunter first then a breeder later. Once you have become a successful hunter and have a couple of very proven trustworthy dogs then start thinking about breeding ...

Your post is a little hard, at least for me, to understand. If I've got the basics right you've got an older Matthes dog (which is watered down if it actually has any Matthes stock in it) that hasn't been hunted much and seen only a few bears? If thats close to correct you don't have a dog worth ...

I left out a lot of the story on experience between when we got our first 2 pups in 2011 and now, and no, they were not related at all. The dog that wasn't a hunter was a blue tic that thought every time they started a track, it was the coolest thing ever to run and bark...but had no idea what he ...

We have been 'involved' with houndsmen since 2010 when we were immediately hooked and came straight home from an Idaho bear hunt shopping for hounds and a rig to cart them around. We bought some random pups and an old dog to teach them(based on suggestions from this site). One of the pups caught on ...