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Todd: I sold two dogs into Montana. One a registered Treeing Walker That I bought as a pup the other a Leopard cur that I also bought as a pup. People see dogs different, here's how I saw them ,the treeing walker was a good young dog a lot of speed and drive on the jump, sticky on the trail and not a box dog at that time. The cur a good bobcat dog catch his own cat both dogs had treed cats by themselves. The Leopard would box good not the best but good. They were about 2 when I sold them. I hunted those two and a year old dog 5 days on there own and caught 4 bobcats. I have sons and daughters out of both of them. To me the Leopard was the best dog and sold them when I was needing to pay bills. Most of my dogs have their blood crossed onto the running dogs. The Leopard was good at adverse conditions [dry ground or dry snow]. My idea of Leopards is different than what I was told about them. They will cold trail { I have caught many bobs that my hounds could not complete with them] but they will not pound a old track out if they can not move it they will not waste time on it. The Leopard was one of the best locating tree dogs on bobcat that I have ever seen. The walker not as good. AS I under stand the Leopard got sold again I would like to know where he went. He was a good dog if one could see it. Dewey

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dwalton wrote:Dan: Numbers are just one measurement. The hours spent in the woods is another. I bred to a dog years ago that only caught 18 to 20 bobcats a year. Not many but when you put in the fact that the owner worked full time and hunted the Mojove Desert in Southeastern California it added a different meaning to me. Some of the best dogs are never hunted and few people get to hunt as much as they want to. The type of dog one hunts should be determined by by each person, what they hunt how often they hunt, where they hunt and what they like. No dog does it all. The dogs that I hunt won't work for most people. I could never get by just hunting them once a week. Some dogs you could. I have said over and over each to their own if you like it and it catches game hunt it. Each breed were bred for a reason. Every body has a opinion. Let me have mine and I will let you have yours. One is no better than the other just different. As you know you can tell a lot about someone by how they react to what is said. Dewey

I agree 100% that no dog does it all. They maybe pretty darn good at it all but there will be a certain dog better at one deal than that dog is or you know what I mean. I also agree 100% about not being able to hunt certain types of dogs once a week. If we did that our dogs would look like pure shit. They would never be tough and they would never be settled. Take care.