kayapellijed390
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I am already started too.
Last year one of friends who owns a dandy male leopard out of Shine, that he uses on bobcat and coon, called to tell me that his male had accidently bred his Quad Grand Black and Tan female. His female is also a top notch, truck to tree, extremely cold nosed, bobcat and lion dog. I tried to do a little bobcat hunting with some of my Leps the past two years and found that while they could flat scream on a jumped or even few hour old track, when it got late in the day they just where not cold nosed enough. I told him right away that I wanted one. Two of my buddies around here also got one pup each. Those pups are now 8 months old and absolutely beautiful. Shortly after my buddy told me about his cross bred litter my old Grnitech walker female Sandy came into heat. Sandy is one of the last females alive that is directly off of Medley's Hardwood Swamp. Her last two litters had been very small. As a matter of fact when I bred her to Mr Clean I only got two puppies. I had decided to not waste any more money driving across the country and paying a stud fee. I have always said if I could combine Sandy and Shine that, that would be my perfect hound. About this time UKC began to post things on the message board along the lines of - it is not if, but when a cross bred category would be opened up. I decided this was probably my last chance to try this cross, so I decided to gamble and give it a try. I got four puppies from that cross and they are now about 5 months old.
The cross that really inspired me to give cross breeding a try was Shine's first litter which most of you know about. He accidentally bred a walker female I had at the time named Sis. That cross produced some truly phenomenal hounds on both big game and coon. Tyler Polzen owns a female from that cross named Katie, she was his first hound and he trained her himself from start to finish, and finish she did! I have hunted all over the country and have drawn some of the toughest dogs alive and I wouldn't be afraid to turn her loose in any company. She is an absolute COONDOG! Blistering fast track dog, deadly accurate, super loud, hard tree dog who will hold all kinds of pressure, as hard hunting a dog as I have ever seen, but she is as calm and quiet as can be at home, she never needs to be leashed and handles like a dream. She is absolutely a competition hunters dream, independent as they come and FAST! On the ground and on the wood. Tyler is very excited to be able to put her in the hunts next year. In my opinion the number of quality females in this breed is very low, and the nice ones cannot be bought! I just finally decided I was gonna breed what I wanted and hope UKC was serious about letting us hunt crossbreds, and if they didn't I figured I could just hunt PKC and wait and hope that single registration would eventually be opened up in the Leopard breed. I have to say UKC exceeded my wildest expectations when they unveiled the new X bred category. Way to go and thank you UKC!
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GRNITECH 'PR' DERBY CITY SANDY
GRNITECH GRCH CASH'S CAMO JUG OF SHINE
--2012 National Grand Nite Champion American Leopard Hound
--High Scoring Leopard 2012 Autumn Oaks
--High scoring Leopard Saturday night at Leopard days 2011
--Qualified for the 2011 UKC World Hunt.
--High Scoring Leopard of the 2011 UKC World Hunt
--Breed Winner for the 2011 Purina Race Hunt
--2011 South Dakota State Hunt Champion
CH RYLEIGH'S GRIM REAPER
--Tri-State Coonhunters Association 2010 Bench show dog of the year
And the Redbone-- 
2013 Tri-State Overall Bench Show Dog of the Year:
'PR' CH RAGGED RIDGE CJ (Willie) co-owned with Bob Julson
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