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John mentioned Jack Cowgill. Jack was my mentor when it came to English Coonhounds. I spent many afternoons at his house when I was a young man while folks from all over the country would call to buy dogs and pups. Jack was a very successful realtor, he sold millions of dollars of real estate every year, but just before he died, he told me if he had it to do all over again, he would have just stayed with coondogs. I have had oportunities to make a good deal of money doing other things, but I have just stayed with coondogs. Jack helped me get started breeding English Coonhounds letting me breed my good females to his top stud dogs like Hopsing and some of his Coin bred dogs. I still have some of Jack's Illinois Valley Coin breeding in my Buckshot strain of English. I believe Larry Wilcox started out with dog carrying Jack's breeding. I sold Jack his last coondog not too long before he died. I see Jack's son, Terry Cowgill, around some, but Terry is more interested in Mt Curs.
I never used Sonny in my breeding and while Wendy is in some of my dog's breeding, I never put her in there too often or too close. Just my person preference, I have reasons but I won't post them here. I would have to look in some of my old yearbooks but I believe Little River Pepper was Platte Valley bred. But none of the Little River Pepper dogs ever showed any of the charactoristics that I have always associated with the Platte Valley line of English. The Little River Pepper dogs will tree, no doubt about it. Most Sonny bred dogs I have seen were tree dogs. Little Bam has both Sonny and Little River Pepper way back in his pedigree, but I do not breed into it. Again, just my preference.
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