Registered: Dec 2004
Location: waco, tx
Posts: 646
Heard plotts are mean
Looked for a plott pup for years in Texas but had no such luck! I hunted with a few years ago and kinda liked them, except for the chop mouthed tracking. I was told that no one hunts them around Texas anymore and then the same folks say they are all mean!!! Never saw that myself!!!! Was I missing something? Still, 30 years goes by, I still see no plotts in texas. Hunting dogs anyway!!!
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 72
Wouldn't say all plotts are mean, every breed has some dogs that get mean, plotts are known to have lots of grit though. A lot of people use them for hogs and bear I know, cant believe no one in texas is running hogs with them.
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: waco, tx
Posts: 646
I have hunted hogs with a few guys that they called some dogs plott crosses. They may have had some plott in them 3 or 4 gen back. Most hog hunters that I've seen here drag up any ole dog they can find. They look like they come from the pound to me. Very unidetifiable breeds. Asked a guy one time "what makes a good hog dog?". His answer was,"if they make it through the first hog on a hunt!!!". On that same hunt we had a big bull dog get killed too!
Registered: Aug 2012
Location: center texas
Posts: 134
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I know a few right off hand around here that hog hunt with plotts....they are all good natured dogs...but can get gritty quick...I personally think they have more get nasty in them than any other coondog...I got a 3 month old male pup now that will get mad at a dead coon...
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Hunted with a couple extremely nice plotts right here where i live i think people have hard time gettin them to tree so not very many around anymore and the ones i been around couldn hold any pressure i figured because they were pack type dogs but yes very very gritty and they are even lil touchy around strange people i could see em bein great bear and hog dogs the plotts up here could smell a two day trail i swear really cold nosed
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Registered: Nov 2010
Location: weaverville nc
Posts: 176
Know several bear hunters in nc that carry 5or 6 plott bear dogs in the same dog box an don't have any trouble I hunt a 3 yr old male dog with pups an don't have trouble with him he has been wrote up in ukc but that's one instance. There's good an bad ones in all breeds
I've hunted with lots of dogs in all colors. They all got mean ones. None of the plotts we've hunted or raised have been mean. I've seen them be weary of strangers but that's not something i mind too much. The biggest problem I've seen with the breed and will admit it is they take longer to start than other breeds, and sometimes they just don't fully get it all put together. Can't say i know of anyone with tough coon dog plotts in TX, but i am sure they're might be.
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I HAD SOME PLOTT DOGS THAT WERE A BLEND OF PIONEER, CASCADE AND WEEMS BREEDING. NICE BAWL MOUTHED HOUNDS THAT CHOPPED ON THE TREE AND NOT A MEAN HAIR ON ANY OF THEM. THE OLD TONY AND KATIE CROSS THREW A PILE OF COON DOGS AND SOME OUTSTANDING BEAR DOGS. <v>
Registered: May 2011
Location: Hitchins,KY
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Picked up a beautiful female Plott from Autumn Oaks about 10 years ago from a well known Plott breeder that I will not mention any names.Trained her on coon and what a natural easy starter and a Treedog second to none but she broke my heart because she was an Alligator.She ate up everthing I had on the tree and it really killed me to get rid of her because she was so smart and easy to handle.
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use to have some plotts back in the early 70s that were good coon dogs.they had short ears and look like a mt.cur and they were bad to fight. the few plotts ive hunted with the last 20 years didnt seem bad about fighting.
I bred a plott one time. I mean I bred up a Plott looking dog . I was leading him to my buddies truck in a _KC hunt past the bench Show. The judge asked Was I going to enter him? there was only a few minutes left. Finest looker he seen in years he said. His daddy was a B&T colored Leopard and his mama was a buff colored Keemer. He was a good looker to me even . Black wit brindle trim. all 55 lbs of him. Not a speck of Plott in him to my knowledge.
Registered: Jan 2010
Location: Anderson co Tennessee
Posts: 1944
we have a few people hunt m here ,,one we had had the drive and wouldnt stop when he set down most of the time u would see a coon.he didnt take kindly to m tree jackers lol always loved it when people bring m idiots and hunt with us lol.my only fault with him is he wouldnt ck in at all knock the back out of the woods pick m up 4 miles down the road lol
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
Posts: 6544
Everybody's experiences are their own.
My experiences are I have seen many more mean walkers, blueticks, redbones, english, and B&Ts than plotts, and i have hunted with quite a few plotts. There is one breed though that stands way out front of all the others with regards to mean dogs, and it isn't walkers.
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