Of course, a master handler can turn them right around and, of course, then they are worth more money. Like I said, I'll be over in January to go out with Curt so come on up and show your stuff. 
Merlo, you said, "If the dogs get a good jump on a cat it should be over for the cat simple as that if your dogs aren't putting pressure to it and or making loses then you probably need to sit down and weed some dogs out and add a new dog" so I would have to assume that you catch every cat, too?? Maybe you are right then and I do need to get with a real cat hunter sometime so I can see these dogs that bat a thousand. Maybe, the guys that have shown me what a good dog is, didn't have as good of dogs as everyone thought they did.
Maybe they made cat hunting "harder than it really is".I'm not saying that Dewey doesn't catch cats and quite a few of them because I know that he does. I know we prefer different styles of dogs and hunt much differently. I'm just not convinced that he is putting up 98-99% of his jumped cats let alone doing it within 20 minutes of the jump on every single one, other than the 1 or 2 "tough races" per year. In one thread, he talks about averaging 1-2 tracks per day and catching up to 4 cats a day and catching 3 often yet he catches 41-64 per year in a 90 day plus a week season. I realize that weather cuts a guys days down but I'm getting lost in this math somewhere especially for someone who talks about how great their dogs cold trail.
I'm also not claiming to even have a dog worth a darn on bobcat. Never once have I said anything about the dogs I'm hunting now nor compared them to anyones. In fact, the dogs I have now are a bit more geared towards bear but they will catch some bobcats. I have, however, hunted with guys who catch comparable numbers of cats as Dewey does but they also get beat so, either they hunt a lot more than Dewey or, for some reason, Dewey is not jumping as many cats as those guys.
