ICB
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Location: NW Missouri
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Buried my high school math teacher yesterday.
This may seem like a strange thread to be in the stud dog forum, but I will try to explain.
My high school math teacher, Larry Maher, was much more than just a math teacher. Yes, he influenced me enough to become a high school math teacher myself. But, that is not why I am posting this.
Why post this in this stud dog forum? One day I mentioned wanting to get a "real" coonhound. I had a border collie/Australian shepherd cross that would run rabbits, tree squirrels, point quail, and tree coons. Smartest dog I have ever been around. After I mentioned wanting a real coonhound he started bringing coonhunting magazines to school. He had been an "english" man for years, both reds and blues. He also had a paralyzing brain tumor operation my sophmore year in high school, and had to get rid of his dogs and cattle. He slowly rebounded from this physical trauma and was still part time teaching at 74 years of age this year.
Anyway he asked me what kind of hound I wanted. I told him I had always loved the looks of blueticks. So he started showing me Warren Haslouers ads on Sooner Be Blue and Crying Jack. He said he had hunted with several of Diamond Jims offspring and they were pretty awesome.
I never got to hunt with my math teacher,(brain tumor back in 85) but I did travel all the way from NW MO to Warren Haslouers place in Antlers OK. This was over Christmas break my 1st year of college. Drove a $200 toyota corolla all the way down and back in icy weather.(many have accused me of not being very smart sometimes LOL) But, I ended up with a pup out of Grovers Petey and a nt ch female named sugar. He started running and treeing coons his third night in the timber, and was never around any other started dogs. This dog, Jake, could have made Grand Nite but he ran the tree so bad I only put him in 3 or 4 hunts. He had a 2nd place, and should have had a 1st, but I didn't call him treed the last few minutes of a hunt because an old man in my cast said he was stuck on an 10' elk fence. Well it was a 3 barb fence, with a coon in a tree, and would have given me a 1st and a second on him in 3 hunts.
Anyway, just paying tribute to a man who hooked me on coonhunting even though we never went. Had my high school math teacher not corrupted me with stud dog ads in magazines I probably never would have gotten the start that I did.
I have always wished I could of given newcomers to hounds a pup as good as my 1st. That is what would have gotten them hooked on hounds also.
A big thanks to Larry Maher. RIP
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