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Someone researched all of their family trees and and made the connection. Just do a search using the words "presidents king john" and maybe you'll start to see the world in a new light. There's a lot more to that story...
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If you trace the lineage of all of the US pesidents except for one they all trace back to King John of England. There is a clue in this and something to take away from it that may be applied to dogs. There's someone a lot more learned than I that already knows where I'm going with this and that's the information I'm looking for here. All of these family lines are carried on through the mothers. Is there someone that can recommend some reading or even lay it out here for others to read? The mothers are the only contributors of mitocondrial DNA and I believe this is where the importan
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Any U.s. Guys Who Breed Lurchers???
Dan McDonough replied to Minkenry's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
If dirtwinger is Tim from the far Southwest I have his number. If not, The guy I know has a litter of first cross whippet x jagdterrier. Either way, there aren't many guys doing it so it's nice to know where they are. Dan McDonough 507-261-9121 -
I'll make a post when they get older and we can all get a look at what they'll be like. He'll be one crazy looking dude if he keeps the white eye.
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Well you can tell just off the pic mate it's not a deerhoundxgreyhound,it's a colliex There may be a sliver of collie and a sliver of bull in there but not anywhere close up. It's almost entirely deer x grey for generations. It'll make for an interesting dog though. This one is a little different from the others. Their only 4 1/2 week old so I can't say if it will be good or bad but he is one to watch. There aren't more than a handful of people in the USA that mess with crossing collie into their dogs because it doesn't do much for running coyotes. Most of the stags here are just big,
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Well you can tell just off the pic mate it's not a deerhoundxgreyhound,it's a colliex There may be a sliver of collie and a sliver of bull in there but not anywhere close up. It's almost entirely deer x grey for generations. It'll make for an interesting dog though. This one is a little different from the others. Their only 4 1/2 week old so I can't say if it will be good or bad but he is one to watch. There aren't more than a handful of people in the USA that mess with crossing collie into their dogs because it doesn't do much for running coyotes. Most of the stags here are just
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I just had a litter of these and I got one with a white eye. Is that very common?
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Super good. I'm out with them nearly every day. They might get to stay home on some of the weekends because of the deer hunting. I'm having a blast with them though. They've caught just about everything I've been putting them on and a few extra things. I've successfully kept them off of coyotes so far but they're a little over two now and have had a lot of practice so they might be alright for them this winter. Their hell on cats and fox but they won't tree a lick and I think I can do one better and get some treeing instinct in them so I'm working on a second cross to work it all togethe
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Alive and well in the USA...
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Interesting topic. I hope you don't mind my adding to the thread. I got a dog from a friend of mine about a year ago. It was an accidental cross between the mother to my best stag and July hound that was in his words, "...what I've been breeding for over the last 20 years." The dogs name is Bandit and he's got unbelievable endurance for a dog that moves as fast as he does. He's always hunting on the run but has a great top speed. I'm very impressed with this dog and have been running the tar out of him for all but the hottest days of the summer. He's got a good hard coat, tough skin and
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so we don't notice the pedos and weirdos we voted in to run our country they must be sitting back laughing at how stupid we really f***ing are so true the cover ups and money they are ripping out of the tax payers THEY dont give a f**k but sheep follow friend once told me we are policed by consent I don't f***ing consent lol That's a fact buddy. Start searching for info about the "STRAWMAN".
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I don't have many pictures. I've never been good at remembering to take some. I have more of the leopards because I was training them to sell for quite a while and had to have pictures. I do have my first litter of stags due in early Oct. I'm pretty excited to get to raise a bunch. I've bought or been given all of the stags I've had so far. It took a while but I have two that do what I was looking for with the bonus of Duce treeing. My female is exceptionally fast and has hawks eyes but she doesn't tree. They both can hunt up their own coyotes and fox and have good warm noses and both
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They have been selected for cats only by me and that only covers about 10 years of breeding. It's just one of those lines where most of the individuals prefer cats over most things if given the choice. This line has almost exclusively been bred for coon. it's just that once in a while certain breeders are making bobcat dogs without knowing it and I found one. They'll stay as long as it takes in my experience but my dogs would say the same about me and that is certainly a factor. Some folks can take these dogs and not have the same success. If they put them on bear without proper back
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The funny thing is that everyone of those dogs pictured are pretty closely related. The houndiest are just as smart as the curiest. In fact, the houndiest of them are usually better track dogs and hold pressure better on the tree. I can call any one of them off the tree and off some tracks with just a whistle and from as far as they can hear me. i know it has a lot to do with the amount of time I spend with them but they are smart too. I've had walkers, engilsh, plotts and loads of mtn. curs. I've hunted with nearly every brand of hound not mentioned also but these dogs are for me and re
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The leopards are classed as hounds by some and curs by others. They are just built in the head for hunting but some how, some way, some one figured out how to make them much smarter without screwing up the drive that makes a hound useful. They do not have that sharp, super quick style of brains you see in the collie, it's more like they come with a wisdom chip installed in their hardware already (at least the good ones do). They are easy to train and very easy to trash break.
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These are some of my Leopards or at least some of my favorites.
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I've certainly hunted with a few like that and they could catch cats very well. It's not a bad idea.
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Those ALH like the catahoula? No, the Catahoula are more of a cattle dog for dangerous cattle. Their good baydogs for hogs but are mostly silent on track if they can even run a track very well. not my cup of tea. The American Leopard Hounds are pretty much like the other six coonhound breeds but they are waaaaay smarter on the average. The line I run is fast and has a lot of really good locators. There's not much you can't catch with them. They aren't as gritty as some but that happens with smart dogs. That doesn't matter tome as long as they don't let things get away. They are pret
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Well, I do have a first cross stag/july (a type of fox hound) that has shown me that the character of the hound can influence the stag quite a bit. I have thought about the curs and hounds quite a bit. The problem I have with the july influence is that it takes the handle out of them, it's just go, go, go. That can be useful but it's not my ideal. That collie type brain seems irreplaceable. I've thought about taking my first cross collie lurcher to one of my American leopard Hounds. The ALH are just like any other hounds in the talent department but they also have a huge brain and it
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I made a litter of lurchers from a stag female and a hill collie type I found here in Wisconsin. I have two stags. One is the mother to the lurchers and the other is a male I bought after I sold Yeti, one of the males that Edwards is hunting with. Oddly enough, that male I bought named Duce is a treeing fool and one of the reasons I'm interested in finding something that trees well to put him to. I have the coyote thing covered but I would really like to see what a lurcher could do on bobcats if it could tree well. I have the hounds to get the cat up and running and I like to slip my lurc
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Treeing. That's the one trait I would like to see in my lurchers. The second most attractive thing is that most of the Laikas that are in this country are only a generation or two out of Russia and many of those dogs have had generations of having to scratch it out on their own, at least over the warmer months. A lot of the people that have them don't feed them outside of the cold times of the year. I'm sure they don't have 10 types of worming meds. and all of the bells and whistles we have here. Oh, and did I forget to mention...their FAST. That doesn't hurt things. I'm going to ha
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I'm in Wisconsin near Lake Michigan and I don't have to sneak much. It's not that I can't find people around here that would know some things about Laikas. Its that I would like to find a lurcher man that has some experience with them. I would like to hear his opinion of the dogs. There aren't many lurcher men around this part of the world.
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Well that's a relief, they're hording quite a few good looking girls over there. I thought maybe it was to keep the outsiders away from the goods.
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If any of you have a minute there is a very good documentary in YT called "Happy People". It's a four part series but nearly all of the talk about the Laikas is in the first one. There are several strains and most folks in the US that have them own a West Siberian Laika. They are larger and are more for big game. I'm a little more interested in the East Siberian Laika that you'll see in the Happy People doc. Those are used for catching food and pine martin for the fur market. It's the toughness and the treeing (barking on a tree when game is up for those of you who don't use that kind of