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Our
Cur Dogs We raise a line of Bay/Find
dogs that are a mix of Blackmouth Cur, Mountain Cur, Plott hound,
and Texas Blue Lacy out of South Texas . We have also crossed in some
Catahoula curs out of Larry Parker's Louisiana stock.
Before we started our line of cur dogs, we hunted
with many different types of dogs. Hounds for instance, have many
outstanding traits - but many of these traits in our type of
hunting, are a liability. One of the things that hounds bring to
the table is NOSE, this is both a good and bad thing. Secondly,
they have DRIVE and "BOTTOM". Drive is the desire to get out and
hunt, and keep hunting., and bottom is the stamina to stay with a
hog until it stops, whether it be in 1 mile or 10 miles. These are
admirable traits - but they are not well suited for hog hunting in
21st century South Texas.
Hunting conditions and what we look for
in a cur dog
It is rare here to hunt a place that is over a couple of thousand
acres. Sometimes, the surrounding ranches are off-limits to us, so
we have to avoid "long races". Wild hogs here in South Texas have
been "dogged" hard for many, many years. They know what dogs mean,
and at the first sound of a bark, they head for the next county at
top speed. As long as they hear the dogs barking behind them, they
will keep running. This makes hounds or any other "open on track"
dog a serious liability.
The cur dogs we use hunt hard, are medium ranged, and silent on
track. The only time they should bark, is when they are looking at
a hog. They are gritty enough to make even a big a boar stop and
fight, thus keeping him from running very far. We expect
them to be smart enough so that when a big boar stops to fight -
the curs back up and bay, and should then hold him at bay without
putting undue pressure on him which might cause him to break bay
and run.
If it is a a sow or small boar we
expect them to catch it by themselves. For the most part though,
we expect our cur dogs be smart enough to size up a hog BEFORE
they try it.
When the Dogos catch the boar, the cur dogs are expected to
catch and hold on as well if they are needed. |
Our Current and Future Cur dogs
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Angel |
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She is Cazadores Cur Dog pup out of our
Jolie and a half Blackmouth half Catahoula strike dog
named Chaos. Chaos was a
damned good strike dog, and after having seen him produce hogs
for years we thought he would be a great match to put over a
couple of our females. She takes more after her momma, Jolie. A
little on the small side, but quick as a whip and full of
energy.
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Catahoula/Mountain Cur cross. She came from some
good friends and hunting buddies of ours, the Spears brothers
out of Arkansas. Jeremy Spears lived down here in south Texas
and we hunted together for years. Tons of pictures with him in
them in the hunting section. She is young but showing lots of
energy and drive. |
He is Cazadores Cur Dog pup out of our Beyonce
and a half Blackmouth half Catahoula strike dog . Chaos was a damned good
strike dog, and after having seen him produce hogs for years we
thought he would be a great match to put over a couple of our
females. He reminds me alot of his granddaddy clyde and his
great granddaddy Tiger. He shows a lot of the old Larry Parker
cur dog influence. He is now owned by my good buddy Jeremy
Spears. I hope to breed back to him, if he proves himself. |
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Our Foundation Curs
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Lucy II |
Beyonce |
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A Blackmouth cur, was a medium range strike dog
with a great nose, like our other cur dogs, she would put
teeth on one to make it stop.
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A daughter of our PJ and
Clyde, she is also a granddaughter of our Jolie, Moe, Tiger and Lucy
(below).
She made a damn good hog dog, and proved her heart on many
different occasions. She has some of Tiger
and Clyde's propensity to take and work out a track, a good
portion of Jolie's hustle and a healthy dose of grit.
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Jolie |
Lucy |
Moe |
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the queen bee among
my cur dogs. She is a mountain cur with a natural bob tail,
from western Louisiana. She has been the top strike dog in our
yard for 7 years now. She was never very rough, but she's got tons of hustle, and enough heart
for two dogs, all packed into a 40lb mountain cur body ... |
Lucy is a great all around dog. She
is a Plott/Blackmouth cross bred by the Rankins, down here in South
Texas. She goes back to a Blackmouth/Plott dog named Rattler out
of South Texas (he was her grandpa) She will find hogs and at 60-70 pounds,
will shut them down too.
She has a hell of a nose, and was rough as a cob in her younger
days. She is semi-retired as of 2-06-07. |
Moe was a Southern Blackmouth Cur
that came from back east somewhere. He was rough as a cob, too. He
had an above average nose, but his specialty was shutting down
running hogs. Moe was being hunted by a friend of mine when he
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Tiger |
Clyde |
PJ |
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we have ever had, second only to Jolie in sheer production. He was
a catahoula cur from Larry Parker in Louisiana. Tiger was the
complete dog. He hunted as hard as Jolie, had a nose like Lucy and
stopped hogs like Moe. If a hog wouldn't stop for him, he would do
his best to stop it or catch it, big rank boar or not. Rough as a
cob and hunted HARD. Couldn't
ask for more from a dog. Tiger passed away in 2005. |
Clyde was a son of Tiger and Lucy. Like you would
expect he was ROUGH. He had Tigers range, he would take a track
and line it out. Good solid dog, with a great temperament.
Was on his way to being a GREAT dog when he was killed by a
boar during the summer of 2005 at 4 years of age. |
PJ was a daughter of Jolie and Moe. She was
striking hogs at 6 months old, and had much of her momma's
hustle. She went to Leroy Rankin at about 2 years old because he
was short on dogs, and he had helped me out in the past. I
believe he lost her down around Cotulla, Texas on a hunt. |
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Other Cur Dogs we have owned: |
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Mamas |
Buffy |
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Mamas was a Texas Blue Lacy that came
from a friend of ours from Floresville by the name of Joey Woelfler. She was already a damn good strike dog when we got
her, and I can't claim credit for taht. She hunted hard and was
pretty gritty - enough to put teeth on a hog,
but not so gritty as to be suicidal. Just the way we like them.
She was not bobtail, by the way, it is just the way she had
her tail turned when the picture was snapped. She went to a hog
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Believe it or not, Buffy is a full blooded Yellow
Blackmouth Cur. She is one of the rare throwbacks that sometimes
happens out of blackmouths, a black and yellow. It is rare, but
it happens. I am kind of partial to this rare throwback coloring
because my hog hunting mentor and good friend, Leroy Rankin had a Jam-Up black and yellow colored BMC
named "Rooster". She came to me from my friend
Russell Vera in seguin. She is now owned by Leroy. I gave her to
him after he got his best strike dog killed in early 2008.
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See some cur dogs puppies from past litters
HERE
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