Registered: Dec 2019
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 246

And right this minute my dad has a sheltie and a cavalier king Charles spaniel and for those that don't know that's a very expensive lap dog. He is up in age so he turns them loose sits on his back porch and waits on them to get treed and he may or may not shoot one out to them. And gets mad when they split tree. Genetics well I guess not. The Sheltie is obsessed with a squirrel and the cavalier just jealous that she was getting attention so she figured I better do the same. Now do I suggest people breed to a cavalier to get squirrel dogs I think not. But he spends alot of time with them and they figured out that's what he wanted.

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Registered: Jan 2013
Location: Marietta
Posts: 10790

Back when I started we bred the dogs that put the most hides on the barn winning hunts was like it is now sometimes the best dog did not win but boy was it fun back then and inexpensive.


We were living in a blessed time and did not know it.


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Registered: Dec 2019
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 246

Things are different now a days I know this. People are lazy we hunted our dogs back then. I think the dogs now are better you just don't run fast game now of days. Now of days they say oh that's a deer dog cause it ran one off 500 yards. They don't know what a deer dog is. I remember trying to get them back after 3 days and hearing them run every night. Now that's a deer dog it might take 5 years to get them broke off them

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Registered: Dec 2019
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 246

I probably need to rephrase that people may not be lazier they just got more stuff going on. Hunting was my entertainment and dogs are all I studied just didn't have all the stuff they got now and all us kids hunted back then. My niece came over Christmas and showed me how to work this phone now look at me I'm on the interweb . My excuse is it's raining and I can voice my opinion .

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Registered: Nov 2011
Location: Freeport,TX
Posts: 1911

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Originally posted by Clovis A Nailor
When I was a kid I had 3 dogs that followed me everywhere. One was a husky one was a labrador and one was a miniature poodle. All 3 would be considered top squirrel dogs today there wasn't a nickels difference in how they treed squirrels,they just flat got some squirrels treed. Where they bred to tree squirrels. NO or was it I spent every waking moment in the woods.

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