Re: What happened to the walker dogs???
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:36 pm
Bones2 wrote:I have yet to hear of anyone breeding a strong line of walker hounds, yes there are a select few nice hounds out there, but who is breeding a high number of good honest cold trailing smart tree dogs?????
Wanted to clarify something in what you desire. You started out the post mentioning UKC registered treeing walkers. Is that what you are hoping to find: UKC registered treeing walkers?
If I am not mistaken, there are at least three people who have posted on this thread that have very good UKC registered treeing Walkers that they have pretty much devoted their lives to for many years. These bobcat and big game hunters are folks that don't fool around with inferior dogs, and regard empty trees very seriously. You are a lot closer than you think. If you can't pick them out, send me a pm and I will help you.
If you want your UKC registered treeing walkers to come from someone who is a straight bobcat hunter, I think Jerry Hatton may still run some registered dogs. Not sure on that, but he did in recent years. I assure you, Jerry will not house an inferior bobcat dog. Same for the Dotson boys, I have no idea if they still have some registered dogs, but they have been known to run some. In both cases, years ago they were running some dogs out of Gerry Washburn stock out of Portalis, New Mexico. They made some fine bobcat dogs: UKC registered Treeing Walkers.
But you will find that most straight bobcat hunters no longer run pure bred UKC registered treeing walkers.