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Thats true you have to know who you are dealing with. Period. This is a honesty issue. I still think a bear dog is a bear dog no matter where hes at. If your on a good track and the dog looks confused it probably is not a bear dog. Would you send a top dog across country to somebody you didnt know. Does he have growly dogs, Is he abusive. You send out a top dog what do get back.

SNOWY RIVER, I gusse if i was selling a dog that is supposied to be a allstar dog i would give a trial and i would take the dog to the person and hunt it where they live not where i do just becouse if ur asking that much for a dog you should honer ur word, It just sucks that there are guys out there that will lie to sell a cull, just like the guy did to my buddy and i agree with you in some points that a bear dog is a bear dog no matter where you take him our her but i have seen awsome bear dogs in idaho that where brought here and looked like shi$ to. You take them out of the open country and bring them to the nasty a## brush and rocks and swamps and they dont do to good just my oppion and what i have seen in the 23 years of hunting hounds

I have never been to West Virginia so I don't know what the terrain is like, but I have seen several dogs brought from there to the coast and none of them could get around. Some of these dogs had littermates that were raised on the coast that were good dogs so I don't think they were necessarily culls (they had the go and desire they just didn't know how to get through the brush) When I first started hunting the desert my dogs looked pretty sorry until they adjusted to the different conditions. So if I was looking to buy a dog I would try and find one that came from similar terrian to what I was going to hunt.

Ryan your probably right the best thing to do is take it where its going to be hunted. I sold a young started dog for a lot of money to a guy in New York with directions not to hunt it or to expect anything for about a month just let her adjust. This young dog had caught lots of bears and had not been exposed to any other game. He asked if I ran drags and I said no I didnt like it. He called back two weeks later complaning this dog wouldnt run a drag or chase a coon. We were both very discouraged I told him he bought a bear dog go chase a bear. Why run drags when you just paid a couple thousand dollers for a dog. He didnt have a pack so he had to wait and go with friends. I called back a while later and he was pleased with the dog. Last fall him and a friend caught the pending state record with this dog and two plott pups. Lucky for both of us he didnt give up.