Dear Damon,
Its good to hear from you. I'm glad you liked my web
site. Marty Capers put that together for me. I just
need to update it with some new stuff. Maybe I can do
that after my football season responsibilities are
over with for this year.
I'm glad your half plott/half cur dog Toothpaste
worked out for you. There is only two dogs of that
cross still living. Your dog toothpaste, which I am
guessing is your main dog, and another one from your
dogs litter named Thunder that Charlie Davis from
Angleton, Texas owns, and thunder is his main dog
also. The one I kept was named Billy Bob. He was from
the previous cross of the sire and dam.
Unfortunately, Billy Bob was one of the two dogs I
lost last summer to Alligators. My friend Kevin lost
two dogs also at the same place. All four dogs were
lost on different hunts. I gave the hunting spot up
after loosing Billy Bob to Kevin, and later in the
summer he lost his two. It was a bad spot, but had
lots of hogs.
In regards to the breeding of your dog Toothpaste,
I made the cross twice. Both sets of pups were
outstanding. On the first cross, there were three
pups. Billy Bob, Champ and Stormy. They were born
the night that my football team won the District
Championship, so I named them after my Defensive
calls.
All three started baying hogs at 3 months, and all
three had no problem of putting their teeth on a hog.
Stormy was a nut dog supreme. All of that litter are
gone to dog heaven now.
The second time I made the cross was a year or two
later. I'm trying to remember, but I think there were
4 in that litter. I named all them after various fits
of nature... Thunder, lightning, Tornado and I cant
remember the last one.. I think yours if my memory
served me right was Tornado. All of them turned out.
and only your dog and thunder still are living.
Sometimes when you make a cross where there is no
line breeding, the cross "JUST WORKS" that cross was
one of those good crosses that we run across
sometimes. All the pups made hog dogs and good ones.
All of them had a lot of hunt in them, and all of them
would grab a hog.
The sire of the litter was Beaucoup Butch, which I
just fed tonight. He's been a good stud dog for me.
He's a registered AKC and UKC Plott out of Sizzlin
Heat who was the worlds champion coon dog over all
breeds a few years back. Butch is a good hog dog,
but I haven't used him much over the last couple of
years due to him being worth more to me as a stud dog
than taking a chance of loosing him on hogs when I
have others who can do it. To my knowledge, I have
never had a pup out of him that didnt make a hog dog.
All of them have lots of hunt in them, and butch
gives them the grit. I once entered Butch in a Bear
Bay over at Plott Days in Rockhill, south Carolina, I
turned him loose and he caught the bear by the ear
like a bull dog. The bear handlers were hot and mad
at me, but to me that was the best $10 for an entry
fee I ever spent...haha Hes been a good dog for me.
The dam of your dog was a brindle cur dog I had here I
called Sally. Sally was a good dog for me, she was a
tremendious trainer dog. She trained many a one for
me and my hunting partners. Her problem was she
wouldnt hunt for other folks evidently. But I
never ever had a problem out of her but on cows when I
first started hunting her. I lost sally back in
April over at my training pasture. There were some
people over that needed a dog to start the hogs for
their young ones. I brought sally along, and she
trained them to. Because before the day was out,
their dogs were finding their own hogs. I had snapped
Sally in the back of my truck on my dog chain, and
while we were gone to the bay, she jumped out and hung
her self. I gave her CPR but to no avail. It was my
fault and I was sick about it.
I have 2 suggestions for you. If you have ever bred
toothpaste, and have a gyp out of him, you might bring
her back down here and breed her back to Butch, might
make heck of a cross. Or if you have a good cur gyp
up there, and you want to raise some dogs that have
the same genes as toothpaste, that you could breed to
toothpaste later on, you might bring her down here
and breed to Butch. And take the female pups from
that litter and breed back to your dog.
Thanks again for the letter, When I hear good
things about dogs Ive bred and raised, it kinda makes
me feel good like a father hearing good things about
his children.... smile..
Talk to you soon,
Jim