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Well my buddy just had a litter out of his plott female, looks to be like lab border collie hound mix, I was just wondering how many of you have kept any dogs out of an accidental litter like this. I told him to cull all of them, but he got real atached to this little male and I was just wondering how many have actually worked in the past. any reply would help I just wanna show him what other people think and what they have done in the past. thanks
Josh

My old dogs don't have any hound in them and tree lots of bear every year plus a few cats both mtn lion and bobcats. Currently my best two are a lab/bordercollie and a lab/? we think rotty. My dogs do not have cold noses. 90% of the bears they tree are body scent when they come near our orchard(up to 1/2 mile away). They can follow a 3 hour old trail, tested them on a bear last year that was just outside the fence at 2am and I took the dogs out at 5am.

The three dogs I had before these was labmixes and those three treed lots of foxes and bobcats and bear (never lions tho).

I would say get them all nutered and don't expect much... but you might be surprised by how well they acualy do. If nothing else they should make good pets.

I herd of a guy using collie/plot crosses and he said he liked them a lot but definitely hot trailers. he also used them as stock dogs for cows

We had a full Border Collie that used to rig and tree bears with the rest of the hounds...

One of my best dogs I ever had wasn't even a hound. He was a black and grey dog, out of a yellow lab male and a yellow lab female, with the rest of his littermates being yellow labs.

Growing up as a young boy, I spent a lot of time hunting and making forts in the river bottoms close to my house. I would routinely catch coons, cat, possum and skunks with my three farm dogs.

My friends never believed me when I told them how many coons and cats Flash caught until they saw him tree a cat in the middle of a star thistle patch in the middle of a hot August day...after that, they wanted to breed their Walker females to him!

I guess the moral of the story is that you should not discount these pups just because they are not purebred hounds.

I agree just hope for the best in this cross.... there have been plenty of pure hounds crossed that the wrong genes were expressed and had a litter of hounds that were not quite what the breeder wanted perhaps the litter will make great hounds that love water.

rifleman - my first thought is cull them-- but i can sure realte to what you said


had hounds for 30 years lol -- all time favorite dog was 1/2 mountain cur 1/2 walker- both parents were very close to worthless- he mite have been the homeliest ,least likely dog i ever owned --

buddy was going to cull him ,he was only pup that survived --

happend to be fooling with a coon the day he stopped by with him , he was just a natural --

he didnt just get the cows-he would single one out ,-he ran the barn--get them up . put them in stalls ,whatever needed to be done, he just did it ,

watch the kids, pull a sled , best watch dog ever ,run a rabbit ,tree coons or squirrel , kill rats and woodchucks -he would ride on motorcyles snowmobiles ,tractors whatver -- if phone rang in barn--- he would bark treed at it-- sometimes get too excited and knock it off the hook and bark in receiver
-- i always liked to say - that mutt answers the phone but doesnt speak english and doesnt take messages--and that was before caller id --

--never taught him anything - he just did it - lassie had nothing on that mutt - i could go on all day but i doubt anybody would belive it -

he never was tied - came up missing --

talked my buddy into making same cross again-
my pup from next litter would tree coon - but nothing special -

have seen a few other good dogs from accidental matings-

better to be lucky than good - once in a great while a longshot pays off -but it will cost the same to raise and train the best you can find -

well the one male ended up going to a friend as a pet, but for some odd reason all the other pups were just plane mean. and I mean they weren't just biteing like a pup does but the hair would stand up on their back and growly, so they were all culled, at least the one we wanted actually went to a good home. thanks for the advice, I wont be so fast to cull next time. I will at least give em a chance.
Josh

walker/collie best dang dog we ever walked behind guy up the road shot him