Questions about full Cameron's

[david]

Lance click on his name and it will take you to the option of send personal message.

[1bludawg]

You can't judge anyone's breed or strain by 1 or 2 dogs ! NO ONE breeds 100% good dogs ! When someone developes a good strain that catches game and the pups sell for big prices then the copycats and crooks step in .They want a piece of the pie that someone else baked ! Instead of neutering dogs that don't produce they breed them and sell them loudly proclaiming that they are Cameron hounds because they know that will sell them.They don't care about the damage they do to a mans name and his line of hounds.THEY WANT MONEY ! I know several guys that have Cameron hounds that catch game and lots of it.Don't blame the man because someone used his name to rip you off!

[Lance_mo]

Sorry if anyone thinks I'm bashing Full Cameron's that's not what I intended for someone to think I have two from a different guy that are Cameron/sugarcreek I know there not full Cameron so can't compare the two because two are not full Cameron's and the other two are supposed to be and like someone els has said they may or may not be full who knows Money will do crazy things to a person and never think about who they rip off or what have ya and I will say I should have done a little more research than I did I'm not saying everyone that has Cameron dogs are like this because I don't know if they are sorry if anyone thinks that I'm bashing all Cameron's I'm not I've never had them till these two

[JTG]

Lance,
I would not give up on the hounds that you have. Some hounds really need to be hunted very hard for long periods of time every day and it's very hard for most people to do that. Every hound is different and what works for one may not work for another. He wants out, that is why he is pacing. It appears to me he is looking for a job.

[ALEX]

I agree with what JTG is saying. Your dogs are most likely wound up from not being out of their kennels as much as they should be. It's probably not so much an issue of this line of dogs as much as it is an environmental factor. Granted, I know of many hunters regardless of where they got their Cameron bred hounds from to claim they are higher energy dogs that can get wound very tight. I have two 15 month old half brothers I got from Del about a year ago. I don't kennel them and they are loose in a very large fenced area and it serves as a good energy outlet for them when I'm not working with them. They're not lazy dogs by any stretch and can get a little stir crazy if I don't have them out for days at a time. I'm in the process of starting mine so can't vouch for what they will or won't do hunting wise, but they are both nice prospects that show all the right things for making trail and tree hounds with no serious defects or red flags physically/temperament wise.

[Lance_mo]

I have had them out a bunch and I mean a bunch the job that I have gives me more than enough time to run dogs they have been out a night and the daylight my kennel I made it myself 4 dog setup they are 10 foot wide and I believe 18 foot long per stall all my friends around that have hounds said I was crazy when I built them said they was way to big but I like them this size more than enough room I think but maybe I'm wrong people do thing different from one person to the next Just my opinion and I agree with jtg what works for one person might not work for the other Alex are the dogs you got from del free cast style turn them loose go hunting I'm just curious

[ALEX]

Lance-mo, the two I have are not likely to be the long ranging style of dogs that are more common in your part of the country where you can cut them, sit on the tailgate and later track them down a mile or more away. It's looking like they will be hounds that hunt with and around you not ranging out very far. So by eastern standards they would be very close hunters. Of course, it's still early to tell but that's my diagnosis from what I've seen.

[Trueblue]

Might be a genetic problem. In my opinion there are very few people out there who are qualified to carry on that kind of tight line breeding. With out the required knowledge this type of breeding can go south real fast and can cause whole host of both physical and behavioral problems. Sounds like you probably bought yours from someone who doesn't have the integrity to be carrying on where Del left off.

[Lance_mo]

I don't know anyone on this site and don't know if anyone would know the answer to this but I'll ask it does anyone have or had or seen a Cameron with one blue eye didn't know if it's good or bad or if it shows up from some dog that del had I don't know anything about Cameron's history I've read call of the hounds but that's about it just trying to learn about this line of dogs

[JTG]

Not from Del.

[JTG]

Those hounds below did not come from Mr. Cameron. Your not alone in buying hounds that did not work out based on a dishonest person, as it has been going on through the ages. I like Plott hounds myself and enjoy reading their history.



I apologize JTG, I thought you were actually that Joey I bought the dog from. Sorry to jump the gun. I found the papers and the sire is Front Range Camerons Duke, and the Dam is Front Range Camerons Candy

[Goose]

I've had one full Cameron that came from a breeder in OK, she was a smaller frame dog that paced so much in her pen I would have to take a shovel and scrape the pen everyday, she was timid and stir crazy, if you touched her wrong she would bawl like you were beating her, she would kill and eat any puppy that got near her including her own, I got her started baying hogs and baying is about as far as it went, I could NEVER keep weight on her and fed her twice as much as dogs twice her size, and had fecal samples pulled on her and she was negative for worms. Now that's my only experience with them, her littermate brother and several more dogs from the same guy made good hog dogs but mine was just out there, I finally put her down. By no means am I judging the line based on my one bad experience, hind sight is 20/20 but the price that was paid for these dogs as pups should've been a red flag that the man was in it for money.

[mudflap]

I owned a cameron bred dog about 10 years ago that I bought from Del as a puppy.He was the same way,wound up tighter than a preachers prick.He would pace back and forth all day long,but you could still take him out and hunt him all day.His downfall was he was extremely mean.You would have to box him up with a female or the fight was on.He too was finally put down after he almost killed another dog.In no way do I hold this against Del,you have your good and bad in each breed and strain.I would try another cameron in a heartbeat if it was from the right breeder.To answer the question about Del I think his call of the hounds website says he's no longer selling puppies.