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Traits and consistancies in exceptional dogs?

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:43 am
by bigboarstopper
Mabye this has been done before but Just out of curiosity, in terms of exceptionally good hunting dogs have you ever noticed any physical, mental, behavioral anomalies in an exeptional hunting dog or line of exceptional hunting dogs??

Ive seen litters of cur pups for instance where only the pups who were natural bobtails came out to be exceptionally good dogs where the pups born with tails couldnt earn their feed. Im not saying the bobtail itself had anything to do with the pups success but speculate that whatever genetic positives that came with those dogs the bobtail followed giving a physical indication of the dogs inheritance of the good hunting gene.

Curious if anybody else has seen any anomalies in exceptional dogs worth making an interesting conversation. Like to especially hear from dwalton or mike leonard.

Re: Traits and consistancies in exceptional dogs?

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:28 am
by halfbreed
i know that my catahoula male had double dews on the back legs thats why i bought him as a pup . cause of my granpappy allways saying a 6 toed dog was hard to beat . anyway i bred him several times and all his pups that was double dewed were better than their littermates .

Re: Traits and consistancies in exceptional dogs?

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:38 am
by bigboarstopper
halfbreed wrote:i know that my catahoula male had double dews on the back legs thats why i bought him as a pup . cause of my granpappy allways saying a 6 toed dog was hard to beat . anyway i bred him several times and all his pups that was double dewed were better than their littermates .
Funny you said that. I was going to use the rear leg dew claw
as my other example. Anybody have anything more pronounced or excessively different?