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Hello everybody!

I´M a 30years old forester from Bavaria/Germany. I`m working Terriers since 17 years (first Jagd- and Fox Terriers, than Westphalian Terriers) and Deutsche Wachtelhunde since 8 years, espacially on wild boar, roe deer, red deer, fox, badger, hare, ducks and marten. I´m very interested in the American Hounds and Curs, especially the American leopard cur (not the Cats!)

I hope to get the answers on my questions here in this Forum, and if you have questions, i would try to answer them, too!

welcome from maine, usa. I have 1 English coonhound, 2 plotts, and a beagle. I am new to hunting with big hounds but been beagling for close to 10 yrs. The Plotts ancesters came from your neck of the woods. I don't know much about the Cur but I think they could worfk well on bear since their a good hog dog.. Whats up with that terrier?

mefishme1234 wrote:welcome from maine, usa. I have 1 English coonhound, 2 plotts, and a beagle. I am new to hunting with big hounds but been beagling for close to 10 yrs. The Plotts ancesters came from your neck of the woods. I don't know much about the Cur but I think they could worfk well on bear since their a good hog dog..

I red the book "strike & stay" from Bob Plott. I had to laugh what he wrote about the possible ancestors of the Plott hounds... The Plott brothers arrived in the States with their dogs in a time, when in Germany exist neither a Hanoveranian Hound nor a Weimi...you could only say, that they brought some hounds with them, wich could have been early ancestors of this breeds...

Whats up with that terrier?

a few little cuts after she `d cached a fox which was a little bit too slowly...

that's a great book.. I have it right next to the bed. good reading, those hanoerian hounds are a heavier hound then the plotts, I like the brindle colorings. on of my plotts have brindle on her legs and shoulders.

mefishme1234 wrote: those hanoerian hounds are a heavier hound then the plotts.

Yes. The Hannoverian Hounds are only used to find wounded game. very cold nosed. Mostly they have to follow blood tracks (with more or less - mostly less - blood on it) after 12 to 30 hours. But even 80 hours are known!

wow that's too cold nose for a hunting hound..

I was in Moose camp here in BC last year met a German who was dog man in Germany...please apoligize for spelling I thought his name was Ottmood....he also was a forester...I seen pics of his dogs he uses for blood tracking they were Bavarian hound and I think Dratharrs for pig. I know Germany is a big place but maybe the dog world is smaller. I have some experience with leopard Curs but there are many fellows on here have a lot more.

Andy.

Hartmut?

Hello from Wisconsin, have been hound hunting 40 years for bear, cats , an coon.Welcome....my wife's a German. Mother inlaw lives in Rohrhof. Not far from Heidelberg. I've always wondered if anyone hound hunted there.

1bigbear wrote:I've always wondered if anyone hound hunted there.

Oh yes we do...but in another way than you... If you are interested in, I´ll write somithing bout...

hypsilon wrote:Hartmut?

yes I think that is his name...

I know one Hartmut with hound and Drahthaar, but he has no Bavarian but Hanoverian hound

hypsilon wrote:I know one Hartmut with hound and Drahthaar, but he has no Bavarian but Hanoverian hound

there is a good chance I got the hound name wrong as well..

horshur wrote:

hypsilon wrote:I know one Hartmut with hound and Drahthaar, but he has no Bavarian but Hanoverian hound

there is a good chance I got the hound name wrong as well..

but Ithink there is a bigger chance I know the wrong Hartmut...

Sir: I have a question.
due to the fact that the original Plott family members came to America in the late 1750's, in light of the devastation left in light of World War I and World War II
just how many hounds of any kind do you estimate survived in Germany after 1945?