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I have a real good friend that's hunted with me for YEARS. He's good at everything and really enjoyable to hunt with and be around. He has a fault tho that just runs all over me. He keeps dogs, buys high dollar dogs, and then they set on the chain only getting off the chain once maybe twice a month until hunting season and then he bitches about his dog's. He's been on me wanting to buy acouple of my dogs. I keep refusing to sell them to him (or anyone else for that matter). Every time we talk one of the last things that he does is makes an offer on acouple of my dogs. Today I finally just told him why I wouldn't sell them to him. "Man if I sell you these dogs we won't have anything to tree come season" "what do you mean?" "You payed $1800 for a "trained" dog and you've only hunted it twice." He got mad. The reasons he doesn't hunt them are many and vast (to hot, windy, dry, worked to much, only has 1 "real" dog I could go on) Would or do you guys sell to people that you know or THINK won't hunt your dogs?

Why would you not have anything to tree if you sold him one ?
If he doesnt get out, there'd be plenty to tree.

I wouldnt send a dog off with someone who wouldnt take care of it or treat it properly and I wouldnt send one to somebody that wouldnt give it a chance to reach full potential... or at least make a solid effort.

Nothing wrong with your choice IMO, you're clearly thinking about the dog before making a buck. Good for you.

Sorry meant to say "anything THAT would tree". It's late.

I admire your courage as peer pressure is really the one thing that many if not most will succumb to. A few days ago I got a comment on one of my ads that "it sure is hard for you to sell pups." well that is half true, it is hard because I make it hard, I make sure that people who get my pups will do what the old timers before me bred them to do... HUNT, then I take calls and if someone says they will send me money and buy the dog...good its your word on the line but when they dont and the same little pup has been sold 9 times and never left my yard, it does appear that it is hard for me to sell pups. What you did of making sure that the dogs destiny gets fullfilled is admirable.

When people sell pups, or give them away, so much of the time they only want the pups to go to someone that will hunt them and give them a chance. Why wouldn't we want , and even expect the same for our grown dogs? I moved to NM in the summer of '89. Since I had just moved, I had a lot of things to do to get settled in , and even set up right. I brought my 3 best hounds with me, hoping to show these boys that the lions in the Guadalupes COULD be caught in the dirt with a bunch of hounds. Because of work and other things, my dogs sat in the kennels for over a year. It ate on me so bad that I looked around, and the first person that I found that hunted hounds, I just gave him my dogs. For what it's worth.....the dogs deserve to be hunted.

I have a buddy that I hunt with that has a dog out of almost every litter I've ever had. he used to hunt the hell out of them and they were turning into a hell of a pack of dogs. the last two years he hits it hard in november and then it seems like they sit in the kennel the whole rest of the year gettin knocked up by the neibors cowdog from time to time. love the guy like a brother I do, but he'll never get another one of my pups.

the reasons are many a hound or person doesn't reach their full potential. it's up to each person to make sure it doesn't happen to them. as far as hounds go its weird how a dog with less then perfect breeding or any other draw back may surpass a hound with all the building blocks if given a better chance to do the job. I wonder how good the old time dogs really were bred compared to today's sure there's many pet/show dogs of any given breed who only look the part but if you took dogs that had been seriously breed for a job and put them up against the same of long ago and gave them exactly the same chances and time which would shine through? i applaud your choice and hope more make it. why build a house if no one is going to live in it?