bjenks
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Registered: Jun 2011
Location: Louisa, KY
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Moonlight May
Yes, Moonlight May was half walker, but I guarantee you wouldn't know it by looking at her. Bottom line is this, that bitch is friggin coon dog and I don't care what she is out of. She has all the traits that we are looking for in our pups. She gets gone, and gets treed and sounds good doing it. Breeding should be no different then buying. How many are going to pay good money for a dog without trying it first? So why should breeding be any different? There's to many out there hung up on breeding for pedigree instead of traits. Why would I want to breed a dog that didn't have the right stuff? How many of you guys out there with a dog off Clints Pistol dog or Rex's Jim dog, have actually been in the woods with either? I can tell you that I've hunted with both, therefore I know both of their traits. By Knowing their traits, I know what they are likely to throw in their pups, and that will be the main factor when deciding which dog to breed to. How many out there would be wanting to breed to Pistol if he were just out of some random PR dogs and Clint hadn't done all that winning with him? Very few I'm guessing, but I'd still breed to him because Ive seen for myself what the dog is. I'm not gonna mention any names, but back in the day I was really wanting to breed to a particular top stud dog, but the owner wouldn't show me him in the woods so I chose a different path. One of the best crosses in recent history was the cross Derek made with Heidi and B3, and if you ask Derek why he chose to breed to the 3 dog it was because he hunted with him and he was the only other red dog that he had seen legitimately beat Heidi. He liked what he saw, so he decided to breed to him. There's way to many nice dogs out there that aren't getting bred to just because they don't have an exceptional pedigree behind them or they haven't won anything, but not every coon hunter is a competition hunter. Anyone out there that's breeding dogs need to quit worrying about breeding for pedigree and start breeding for traits. It's the only way we are gonna improve this breed. I'm not gonna buy a dog with out trying it first and I'm not gonna breed to a dog without trying it first. We bred May to B3 because that bitch is a coon dog and so was 3, and these pups are only 5 months old and we are already seeing the traits that we bred for coming out in them. Only time will tell how they turn out, but if they're anything like their momma or their daddy, then we will be hunting some dang nice dogs.
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