That was my experience with lion hounds from the southwest. I try to use them on coon and then after they will be train for coon, try to use them on ocelot and possibly jaguar. But at least three of the ones I bought didn´t have the trait for treeing. Possibly it will show up if I hunted 200 days a ...

I have some experience not much running bobcats and ocelots. What I have experience a bobcat is more difficult to tree. In dry ground near south texas or where I have the ranch, to catch them regularly you need a pack of hounds. You will not have much luck with only one hound. They will have to work...

Hello Mike, For the experience that I have with the jaguar kills. When the calfs are young the will just with those powerful jaws will go for a bite in the head. With the tusks and they go a long way inside the skull. Let me post some pictures of a kill last May kill in another pasture about 4 miles...

Some pictures of what I wrote in the last post.

I just came back from the ranch. On Tuesday night the jaguar attack the calf that I post the picture the first time. This calf is from a very aggressive and proctective mother. That same night he attack another calf this it was a female calf about 7 days old. He wasn´t able to kill it but he left it...

This is the release of an ocelot in a ranch we have near Soto La Marina. One of the workers at the ranch has cock fowls (fighting rooster) I don´t know if cock fowls is the translation for "gallos de pelea" and about twice a year he will get a visit from ocelots trying to kill the hens and...

I live in Tampico its about six hour drive south of the Texas border near Brownsville. I have hounds for the last 20 years. I had Big Game Walker from Doug Meyer of Idaho, then I try the Southwest Big Game Hounds from Mike Leonard and Chris Todd. For the last six years I only have registed Blueticks...

The father of Ormiston True Boy IV , one of Guy Ormiston best hounds of the past, it was Gaither´s Blue Chalkeye. With that name he must have had one blue eye. He was from Bob Gaither, son of Gaither´s Blue Tina and Anderson´s Bigcreek Jim was a dog from Buzz Anderson. Anderson Big Creek Jim his dam...

Hi Mike, You must be grateful you had a great hound and for so many years. I have never heard of a hunting dog that went to the age of 17 years and to be able to hunt until he was 15, tells you the kind of conformation and determination he had. I remember of Blue the one that you sold me as a puppy,...

Gary, nice to hear everything is working as you planned with your Yuma female. Lots of work any person has to put in raising a litter and with AI it doubles. Hope Yuma will have a nice and healty litter.

Saludos

The other opinon of the two littermates breeding was from Mr. Guy Ormiston he answer me by email and told me: This bloodline has been able to take close breeding without any physical/mental problems. Of course we don't know on each cross until we try it. There are a bunch of fine cooners in the pedi...

Gary, I had a similiar situation like yours. I had a unplan breeding of brother and sister blueticks of Ormiston Breeding. In 15 years is my first accident of this type. Usually when a female starts to enter in heat I take her to the ranch and bring her back home when the heat is over. Nobody saw th...

Gary, I hope that Jill recovers to 100%. Sally I have being hunting her, with the Julie and Rusty (Ormiston breeding). Sally is very fast hound with good nose. Only problem if she doesn´t find a fresh track she will start working an old track and after much wallowing on the track she will get treed....

My experience with ocelots is that they are very similar like the jaguar any you seldom see them at daylight. They habitat is the tropical forest and the jungle. I know there are in good population and problems with inbreeding in a reserve of la Laguna Atascosa near la South Padre Island in the USA....

I have being with hounds for the last 14 years, but the last three I wasnt able to have a tree hound. They will trail the coons but not able to locate and tree their coon. I bought Sally a Bluetick from Gary Roberson last July, I take her hunting last weekend and was able to tree two coons. Even tha...