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By John Wick....
Listed below in alphabetical order are some of the better known dogs that I raised, started, and completely trained. After all these years, I clearly remember each of the following. If you have lots of free time, I can show you pictures of most of them and they each have a story with some interesting twists and lessons.
Wick’s Backfire, Wick’s Billy Bee, Wick’s Blaze, Wick’s Blossom Bee, Wick’s Blue Chip, Wick’s Boss Bee, Wick’s Cherry, Wick’s Country Boy, Wick’s Doctor Pepper, Wick’s Doll, Wick’s Double Dan, Wick’s Ginger, Wick’s Hornet, Wick’s Hustling Bear, Wick’s Hustling Roxy, Wick’s Keystone Witch, Wick’s Keystone Woman, Wick’s Little Scamp, Wick’s Lucky Lady, Wick’s Lucky Strike, Wick’s Molly, Wick’s Molly Bee, Wick’s Ozark Dude, Wick’s Ozark Jade, Wick’s Ozark Pam, Wick’s Ozark Rebel, Wick’s Ozark Rip, Wick’s Ozark Ruby, Wick’s Ozark Tanner, Wick’s Ozark Tiger, Wick’s Ozark Timber, Wick’s Polly, Wick’s Prince, Wick’s Rolling Ruby, Wick’s Runover Preacher, Wick’s Stinger, Wick’s Stylish Bull, Wick’s Stylish Charm, Wick’s Stylish Cher, Wick’s Stylish Chick, Wick’s Stylish Crowbar, Wick’s Stylish Fancy, Wick’s Stylish Fern, Wick’s Stylish Flirt, Wick’s Stylish Fur, Wick’s Stylish Hooker, Wick’s Stylish Princess, Wick’s Stylish Ruby, Wick’s Stylish Sis, Wick’s Sugar, Wick’s Super Pup, Wick’s Timber Tramp, Wicked Saint, and a few dozen more.
The following are talented dogs that I bought when they needed a little or a lot of disciplining, breaking, training, and finishing. They were all somewhere between barely started and almost finished, and I worked with them at least a year or two finishing them.
Bumblebee, Sugar Loaf Thunder, Wick’s Bingo, Wick’s Camo Jug, Wick’s Champ, Wick’s Chief, Wick’s Cindy, Wick’s Dixie, Wick’s Flirt, Wick’s Katie, Wick’s Keystone Jill, Wick’s Kitty, Wick’s Little Bonnie, Wick’s Moonlight Major, Wick’s Outlaw, Wick’s Ozark Foxy, Wick’s Ozark Rock, Wick’s Ozark Screamer, Wick’s Rambling Blue, Wick’s Rawhide, Wick’s Rolling Rock, Wick’s Rolling Stone, Wick’s Rose, Wick’s Salty, Wick’s Silver, Wick’s Stylish Banjo, Wick’s Stylish Billy, Wick’s Stylish Nell, Wick’s Thunder
Another good hound is sometimes connected to me. Several years ago Rick Stretch knew of a nice young Walker called Hawk, and he bought Hawk with my money. Rick successfully hunted Hawk for me for about a year and then Wick’s Hawk was sold to Tex Moats and Roy Tramble. I don’t deserve any credit for training or hunting Hawk.
The following are good dogs that I bought and didn’t need to do anything with but enjoy them:
Brinkley’s Ozark Nell and Brinkley’s Ozark Preacher were top dogs I purchased from Jim Brinkley. Babe’s Stylish Banjo from Mac McCallister. Strang’s Polly Kaye from Tom Strang. Hart’s Mary Ann from Bob Hart. Hustling Billy from Chick Carlton. Keechi Jake from Harry Lister. Rolling Hills Dan from Ed Loomis.
Many of the dozens of above listed dogs were UKC Nite or Grand Nite Champions. Some were successful PKC competitors. Several were noteworthy reproducers. Most were dandy pleasure dogs.
In round figures, I’ve sold at least 400 started to well-started young dogs that I raised and got to the point they could at least tree some easy coons on their own and be pretty well straight. Most were sold on a money-back trial. A perfect example is Wick’s Stylish Leeper that I sold two weeks ago. Leeper is 18 months old, well-started, and very nice. He went to a hard working, experienced, good guy that’ll pleasure hunt him a bunch but probably never promote or Nite Hunt him, even though the dog has the talent, voice, looks, style, and pedigree. That’s typical of most of my customers and the dogs they get from me.
During the past 40 years, I’ve bought at least 100 unlisted dogs that I worked with, tuned-up, straightened out, and then resold to happy customers. I’ve also bought many hounds that weren’t what I thought I was getting, or had a major, unbreakable fault. Some were sold at a big loss, some were given away, and others are pushin’ up daisies. An example happened last year when an “old friend” claimed he needed to sell his good female to get some needed cash. In two UKC hunts, she had two firsts. She had a famous sire. On this guy’s word, and to help him out, I bought her. Whew, what a costly mistake! Poor mouth, super trashy, slick treeing idiot and wanted to fight over those empty trees. Yep, she found out what “Winchester” Wick means.
I’ve also raised a few hundred dogs of all breeds that I failed to turn into useable hunting dogs. But, I learned something from every one of them. Many of them showed me that if the desire and ability aren’t born in them, I sure can’t teach or force them to tree coons with gusto. But I always enjoy trying. Even frustration beats boredom. Hunting top, finished dogs night after night can become a form of boredom for me, since I’m not crazy about competition, although I do respect it and participate occasionally.
There are always a few people voicing opinions founded on a lack of knowledge, or jealousy, or some kind of angle or axe to grind, or a sensible and respectful difference of opinion. I do understand that there is significant respect for me and my methods in some circles and different opinions among some other folks. One guy recently said, “Wick’s training methods are BS.” Well, I certainly appreciate his compliment, but I can’t honestly say that all my methods are the Best Systems. But I do believe that many of them are something to consider. That is what BS meant, isn’t it?
Another guy, in a supreme effort to build himself up by chopping me down, said, “Wick couldn’t train a house dog to sit.” Well, after giving that statement all the consideration it deserves and recognizing that training a dog to sit would at least take a smidgen of talent, I came up with a better line that he could use in the future. How about, “He couldn’t even train a hungry dog to eat Alpo!” Another “expert” recently ridiculed my methods of selecting breeding stock, and yet all of his dogs that he brags heavily about are descendents of my breeding program. Duh! Well guys, I’ve shown my list, now show yours.
I think that about says it all.
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