this ones easy! i'm down to the beagles because they are the only dogs my old man will let me keep in the yard anymore LOL..i guess he aint a big a fan of them big tall, long eared, bawl mouthed dogs as i am..buut i gotta give him credit, he sure put up with it for awhile haha
ohhwell make do with what ya got i suppose
hank taught me just how to stay alive, you'll never catch out the house without my 9 or .45. i got a big orange tractor and a diesel truck and my idea of heavens chasin whitetail bucks...
No need to appologize to me. Although it can be a loaded question, it can also be discussed rationally if both parties are adults.
I stand by my earlier post, I have and feed the dogs I do because they catch game for me where I hunt. I couldn't care less about breed. My experience has been that a well rounded dog, one that is average to above average for many traits, will catch more game than one that excells in a couple traits and is very weak in others. It seems that I usually have more hound/catahoula crosses in my yard than any other single breed or cross at any given time, but that is not by any design or desire on my part. I also have walkers, blues, catahoulas, b&ts, plotts, and Jagds in my yard currently.
Bill
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Emily wrote:Scott I like the red dogs for their beauty, and if I can find what I want in red, that's what I'll take. I'm past my prime, so an accurate, stay-put tree dog helps me make it to the tree. At least one of them has to be loud enough for me to hear, too. I think I can give almost any basically healthy dog the stamina by giving it enough exercise, but it helps if it has tough feet. I am old-fashioned enough to be suspicious of pink footed dogs on that score, but very few redbones have anything but black feet.
I can be silly about what I'll put up with in a hound. I have one that is so mischievous and disobedient than no one else would put up with him, but he's accurate, and has a huge amount of drive, and I find him entertaining. I believe that most hounds have their strong and weak points, but if you start with the hound's strengths, you can probably find a job it is suited to. When one pup turned out to have far more interest in bears than coons, I took up bear hunting. I'm more interested in the hounds than the specific game. However, since I tried bear hunting and got hooked, and there's lots of bear near me, I'll probably always have at least one bear hound around.
