kayapellijed390
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I bet if you hunted with some of my dogs in my terrain you wouldn't say we are looking for two different things.... People get all worked up when you say you are trying to breed leopards that can be competitive in the hunts. They think you will breed out the things that make Leopards... Well.... Leopards. To me the things that make the Leopards special are their natural handle, brains, accuracy, and they are just plain easy to live with. My goal as a breeder is to not loose ANY of that stuff. That stuff to me is the most important. I have to live with the dogs I keep exponentially more than I get to hunt with them. Meaning: I detest wound up, yard barking, pen running, yank you around on the leash type of dogs. Even if a dog is top notch in the woods, if they cause me aggravation in my day to day they are not gonna last long. I will sell them in a heartbeat. I HATE, HATE, HATE, dogs that have to be hunted down. Anybody who has spent any amount of time around Shine knows that he is as about as mellow of a dog as ever lived, until the sun goes down and the boots come on. Here is a picture of one of my typical hunting spots.
Now ask yourself do you wanna walk hunt through that or do you wanna cut the dog, drive a four wheeler or truck along the ridges, and drive as close as you can to every tree. I absolutely NEED a dog that will GO. I also hunt small farm groves from time to time and I don't need dogs that will just blow out of that 5 acres of trees I just dumped them in either. I have found that many of my Leopards can do both. I have also found that when I crossed leopards and hounds I got the best of both worlds. I got smart dogs that hunt super fast, deep, and hard when needed and will handle like a border collie and hunt a farm grove out like a cur dog. It's not that I am breeding for dogs that you wouldn't enjoy, it's that I am trying to breed dogs that can hunt both ways. I think that is a fairly new idea. It doesn't have to be one or the other. I have proven that much to myself. NONE of my dogs that I consider broke, need a leash ever. They can be called in from anywhere regardless if they are treeing, trailing, or just farting around. My dogs may not be the best that ever walked the earth but if they are gonna live here, they had better HANDLE.
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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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