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About my dogs and my breeding program. In 1986 I moved to New Mexico from north Missouri and not realizing they had quail here I had sold my bird dogs. When I realized we had a lot of quail here I started trying to get a hold of some dogs that would work here. This country is tough on a dog as it is dry and rocky. I struggled for a few years ordering a lot of pups that did not have what it takes for this area. Here is takes a dog with a lot of nose and brains enough to use it. Plus they have to be tough to stand the heat and terrain. Also I found that a dog that works good here has to be light on its feet as a large dog that hits the ground hard does not hold up well. Another thing I had to have was a dog that keeps track of me while hunting hard which is very difficult to find in a world where a lot of emphasis is placed on field trial bloodlines. Also I looked for dogs that would hunt dead and liked to retrieve. Add to this that I am a fanatic on a classy dog with a straight tail in the eleven to twelve o’clock range, preferably eleven thirty. Well I have finally started achieving this in the last ten years. Intelligence and nose has been a big factor in building the strain of dogs I now have. I have been very selective in the dogs I keep for breeding purposes to where now we achieve a very high percentage of our puppies making good bird dogs. The bottom line is if a dog can make it here it can go anywhere and be a bird dog. Nuff said The Scarfaced Bootlegger (Troubles)
Here is a dog I raised a couple of years ago out of The Grumpy ole Bootlegger. He has made one of the nicest all around bird dogs I have ever had. He is very intelligent, has a lot of nose and knows how to use it. Is very stylish in moving and on point. He is the easiest handling dog I have ever had. He hunts medium to open depending on the country but the best part is I never have to say any thing to him. He keeps track of me and if I change directions he will soon be in front of me hunting his heart out. I have bred him to five different females and he has produced outstanding pups out of every one. Many of them have his same characteristics. They love people and want to hunt for them. He loves to retrieve and seems to be passing this on. I have some young females out of him that are spectacular that you will be hearing about soon.
Tequila Rose
Tequila Rose (Rose) has the style and nose I prefer in my females. She is extremely intense on birds as you can see. She points at a good distance to be able to stay off these running quail. She was pointing at ten weeks of age and has a lot of natural instincts when it comes to backing and retrieving which I am constantly trying to establish in my dogs. I think she will definitely be an asset in my breeding program as well as a nice dog to hunt behind. The cross of troubles on to old Nickie was definitely one to be treasured.
Here is one of the females in my breeding program that has produced some very outstanding puppies.
She is a very attractive moving dog with a lot of point bred in her. She was a very natural retriever and loved to hunt dead which has bred on down in my dogs. Nickies White Wine is her name and she is just like good wine the older she gets the better she gets.Below is her Pedigree and you can see why she is such a good producer
Texas Elhew Showman
Texas Elhew Showman is a great bird dog out of the old Hook dog and a female out of the old Elhew Chaparral dog, which also was a great dog. Joe Davis in Texas owns this dog and he keeps nothing but the best. Clyde is his call name and he was born easy to handle and a genius at working running birds. His nose is as good as they get and he darn sure has the brains to use it to full advantage. As you can see he has plenty of style on point. As he is one of the last out of ole Hook, I am glad to get some pups out of him to be bred to Troubles later.
Bootlegger Nikie
Here is Bootlegger’s Nickie, she is direct out of my old Nickies White Wine female and Troubles. She will be bred to Hank to have some females to come back on Troubles with. Little Nickie has one of the greatest noses I have seen. She was pointing pigeons solid forty and fifty feet away at ten weeks old. Handles the very best and would back as far as she could see a dog at four months. She is Classy, Classy, Classy.
Cimarron's Mariah
Mariah is one of the best dogs I have ever owned. She started pointing and retrieving at four months and went on to follow up with high intelligence and a super nose. I let a good friend of mine, who is a hard hunter and excellent shot, hunt her last winter. He killed over three hundred birds over her, mostly over point and said she retrieved nearly every one, making some unbelievable retrieves. Mind you, she was only fourteen months when he started hunting her. Nuff said. Also, she is one of the nicest handling dogs I have ever had.
Bootlegger's Cajun Dot
Dot was a female who started very young, has a lot of nose. She is tough and covers a lot of ground and does it easily. Turk, her sire, is one of the best bird finders I have seen and it seemed to breed down. She has a lot of style and is tough. Her dam Cajun, as I called her, was a double bred Troubles (Call name for Scarface) female. She is bred right top and bottom. I am looking forward to her puppies.
Doc's Dixie Fiddle Dixie is one of the finest young dogs I have started. She has an outstanding nose along with supreme intelligence. Her style of hunting suits me to a T as she handles this country well and I hardly ever have to say anything to her. She goes back to Slate Creek Doc three times which is in most of my dogs and also goes back to Fiddler's Ace five times. She's definitely a big asset to my breeding program.
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