Crazy Luke
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: NJ
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After 20 years
So after 20 something years of messing with these dogs and knowing something about Registered Holstein Cows, Registered Yorkshire Hogs and Registered Suffolk Sheep here is my conclusion, and oh I almost forgot. Personally knowing and mentoring under Glenn Bosley.....What is a true redbone????????Mine have Black and Tan, bloodhound, Irish setter, Boxer and I have heard Black Mouth Cur in them, oh and don't forget some walker.... Mr. Bosley told me he sold the first Buckskin Plott that was registered back in the forties and it was a redbone.....Mr Bosley did not have tracking equipment like we have today so he wanted his dogs to stay within calling range. Today the dogs I want to hunt have a different style then his...I think every breeder should breed for the style that he choses...Their are enough different styles that people can best chose what suits them...Personally I think the breed suffered when past breeders tried to breed a solid red coonhound........As far as breeding goes. Only once can another breed be crossed into the (red) line.. After that (breeding a half breed back to the a non red dog) the pups will become more like the non red dog... So no longer will it be a red dog. As far as I am concerned as long as it fits the breed standards it is a redbone...It used to say in the Redbooks in the color section that no more white the a hand could cover or something like that..Got to check my 1992 rebook.. Anyway...Many different kinds of animals have changed shape and color with the advent of crossbreeding.....Has anyone ever seen 7/8 Semital cattle... I think that breed standard is what is most important to the redbone breed, for if it does not look like a redbone it prolly isn't... Again, once a redbone is bred to another breed and the progeny is bred back to the other breed, it will not be a redbone but it will become the other breed with a redbone background....Hope all that makes sense. I see a change even in show dogs. They no longer look like the large boned redbones that Glen owned, but a lot are penciled footed, fined boned that to me, surely looks like something else has been added.... Now I want to say this.. Everyone that owns a redbone feeds their own redbone and can breed to which ever suits them best. Myself I have a GPS and don't want a dog that stands at my feet or comes back and says to me " "I am done hunting here." They had better get gone and stay gone....I like them Loud.They had better be accurate and not a slick treeer. Quick to open and drift a track opening enough to know which way they are going. Not a babbler or blabber mouth on track. I would love one that could tree a lay up but I believe that could be something learned, not a trait.......Well I have probably peed a lot of people off and that's not my intention....Some might say, " Lucas, what have you done that makes you an expert?" My reply to them is this. I am not an expert, but bred the only redbone that made it to the 70 dog $kc World Hunt semi's... I got as much satisfaction out of seeing someone else make it there, with a pup that came from my kennel, then from me making it myself....Hope to have some more make some world hunts somewhere, got his momma and sister here to make some more. So if that is what you are looking for give me a holler. I hope I can send you a pup of that style and caliber.... Thanks for reading and lets stay friends whatever your endeavors... One last thought...Let's not forget that there is only peasants blood flowing through the veins of these royal dogs...Mark Lucas, Monroeville NJ.
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