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everybody is looking for a finished dog. I got a 5 year old male nuetered plott I will sell. Good trail dog, casts out well also. 99% silent, barks less than most cur dogs but will open a very little. Stays bayed good by himself. A little rusty as he hasn't been hunted in a while but a very solid dog. try him for two weeks and if you do not like him for any reason bring him back. $2000 334-208-2799 |
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Just curious,
Why neutred? If a guy saved up his money and bought a dog of a lifetime, he couldn't get pups out of him. I guess he could clone him.
Just curious
dogman man out. |
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I have hunted him and caught hundreds of hogs with him over the years....Why I haven't hunted him much lately is a long story.
He is nuetered because he was rough at the tree on bear. A bear tree is alot different than a bayed hog. They can't get to the game and the dogs are jumping all over each other and really hyped up. If a fight starts it can be deadly.
I'd be glad to answer any more questions if you call. He is a nice dog. He is leaving the end of this week for a trial. |
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Well i went and looked at this dog and he told me he dont bark that much but the way he was described to me he sounds like a running walker following a doe. Dont go to try the dog without the MONEY he will send you on your way back home very quick. |
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Hold on now buddy....that is not very nice....you are correct I would not send my dog off on trial without the money...I spoke to you on the phone and told you that before you got there...The dog is exactly the way I say he is....anyone is welcome to try him. He has been barking a little more lately but not alot...but like I told you......come get him, try him, for any reason you do not like him bring him back......I am just not in the Habit of letting someone haul my dog off without leaving the money..... |
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Huh? Heat you must be related to those folks I bought my house from, they would not let me live in it first, either. Your common sense and reasonableness is evident. <;
Do you have any photos you can post of this dog?
As far as barking on track goes, it is less important than how fast the dog runs a track, how smart it is on the track and what it does when it catches up to the hog. I used to be in the club that believed that the only good hog dog was a silent one - for at lease 20+ years, I subscribed to that folly.
Yes, a slow, stupid, open trailing dog that does nothing when it gets to the hog is the worst thing you want to see or hear. But a plott hound gyp named Tigger changed my mind about 1997. We consistently caught the worst running boars that would go 7-10 miles with her, but she also stacked up 10 hogs in half a day more than once, and each one was taken one at a time --- struck trailed, bayed and caught or killed mostly with that one dog. And she did bark on trail, but when she sensed it made the hogs run, she went shut-mouth until she caught. I called it shut-up to catch-up.
The best hog dogs I have hunted with, and most were not mine, were neither full curs or full hounds. Most were 25% hound and 75% cur, and yes they all barked some on track, but all were fast and smart. Most were not gritty at all. |
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If you come across a good treeing walker female (papered) that can jump one and get him stopped I'm interested at any price. I need a female to go with and breed to the ole man. |
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If I ever find a dog that went "selectively" silent over a period of time I will try to buy it. I have seen a few over the years probably from the same line as Stupid is talking about, the ones that did this showed a very high intelligence level and were very hog savy. With that said the 2 I can think of were very exceptional dogs in the "once in a liftime" category. In my opinion it shows the ability to reason. Ellie Mae would bark less on shoats than she did on big boar hogs. When she was 18 months old she would open in the road ditch on a cold hog track and when she was 8 years old she would run a hog for hours and never say a peep. You tell me. |
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Heat
Now you make me feel bad for never breeding Tigger to a plott. I did try to breed her to Orval's Jeb, but he was already 12-13 years old and it never took. We bred her twice to curs and cur x plotts and we did get some exceptional dogs from them.
You are right-on about the intelligence thing. Smart dogs make better strike dogs, produce more and survive better. However, smart dogs without drive are the worst, as they head for the truck when things get bad.
I find the same thing with the little Jagdterriers I breed and hunt. They are all little maniacs and all have almost too much prey drive. But the smart ones learn to survive, can trail better and are easier to trash break. |
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