Breeding like to like is a good thing to do to reproduce good dogs. I have breeding dogs for several years to breed a ultimate bobcat dog. That said we all have our on opinion as to what that should be because of where and how we hunt. I hunt the Northwest now mostly in Oregon west and east side bot...

There are no short cuts in training a hound. Just a lot of hours and foot miles with your dogs. Looking back after many years you will see you were the most important one that was learning not your dogs. Dewey

It depends on what you are trying to do. The father and brother my have some of the same genetics but may be totally different types of dogs. If her father is what you are trying to reproduce then breed to father if possible,if not and father and brother have like traits breed to brother. Inbreeding...

All that you have with dogs is genetics and training. If you understand the dog and training you can have the dog doing whatever you want it to do. If you have a trashy dog that is either genetics or a training problem coming from a handler that is inexperienced or hunting with other trashy dogs. I ...

Cold trailing is a is a expression of what we thing is going on as hunters. I think we understand it very little. AS you may think, I feel there is a lot to learn from service dogs training that are use for things other than trailing game animals. I feel most dogs can smell about the same what makes...

When I have hunted bobcat in juniper country most hounds will tree. Locating and treeing with other dogs is a different thing. Have seen a lot of dogs that tree great when in a pack[ mostly registered walkers] but could not locate a bobcat on there own. When I hunted lion and bear with my hounds the...

There is a lot of good information here from experience hunters. For me I don't want a early tree dog here in this big timber or a hard tree dog, to many trees with nothing in them. A lot of me to tree dogs can not locate a bobcat. I think to understand how a do trees you need to think about how he ...

I pack binoculars to trees, a lot of bobcats can be seen with a closer look with 12 power to help. I have climb a lot of trees also when younger. The best story that I have with climbing a tree I was down on our southern coast that has a lot of Tan Oaks which are heavily leafed and grow in clumps. I...

It's just color maybe or maybe not? I have seen cats caught in NE California that were dark with a brown belly well spotted that looked like a western coast cat and I have seen them from the coast range that look like a eastern Oregon cat. Most of the time bobcats will look alike from a same area. I...

The US forrest service recognize 12 species of bobcats for what it is worth. Some scientist feel that they are all the same with various looking bobcat that have adapted to the environment that they live in and the food source that they hunt. Bobcats that live in colder climates will have more fur, ...

In the years that I hunted lion was was lucky enough to see 2 lions at different times go up tree. both went up well before the dogs got close. One large tom I watch come around the mountain in open timber country stop and listen to the hounds when they were a couple of hundred yards behind him. He ...

With the weather conditions it is tougher to keep after a cat. With these conditions freezing in places and not under the trees, the sun thawing open spots with the cats traveling the roads with the nice weather it becomes a little harder to figure out whats really going on for you and the dogs. If ...

I don't hunt lion anymore and all of my older dogs will check a lion track. I use to guide lion hunters and have seen several hundred lions in trees. I have found on several occasions lion in trees with no dogs under the tree, that is top bobcat and lion dogs. The lion dogs out of the southwest and ...

why you sound like a man than can read his dogs, knows what it takes and hunts hard. I had a old timer years ago tell me behind every good dog or pack of dogs it takes a good hunter, I would say you are one. Any thing can be done with hounds with the right dogs and the right knowledgeable man behind...

Pigleg you are right on as to differences in condition and locales make a big difference in what a dog can do. Even out here in the northwest I have seen a lot of differences in what each type of dog can do. I have worked my dogs in OR, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, California, New Mexico and ...