slowing down

[bulldoghistorian]

I have decided to slow it down
the beard is all grey , kids are grown .
been a long time since I did 10 a year , went all the way down to maybe 2 or 3 per year and getting to the point were winter just feels to hard, who knows.
Its been a blast , I have many fond memories , enjoyed a few good ones , owned and bred a few gr ch , ch and winners

I still enjoy a good conversation, but as of 2017 I know only one man in my area who has been longer involved with the dogs than I am and these days we rather enjoy a good whisky or rum
if you remember sitting by the phone awaiting the buck sandman show gimmie a call

[CYJ]

Ditto bulldoghistorian. I know the feeling all too well. Between Church, work around the house and keeping the grand children. Not much time for anything else. Cheers

[bulldoghistorian]

Ditto bulldoghistorian. I know the feeling all too well. Between Church, work around the house and keeping the grand children. Not much time for anything else. Cheers

Didnt you talk about vernon a while back ? he is out right
I remember we used to put money together and called almost every single dogman in USA ( calling was expensive back than like 8 dollars per minute )
He never tried to sell us a dog I remember thinking thats the guy we should buy from

another fella I always thought to get a dog from was REP walked the yard had just a few but damn he had some winners

[Palooka]

yous maybe have a few years on me but i can still remember a time when you wanted a dog of someone, you wrote them a letter :)

[EWO]

The phone calls is something most in the dogs today do not understand because they do not remember. The guy that turned me onto these dogs bought a puppy off of Red Boy and Cleo way back when. He paid $300 for the puppy. The phone bill came in and he had more in the phone bill than the puppy.

Back then it was a long distance call to the next county.

We lived on the same road as my Grandmother. The county line was between us. I could call our neighbor for one rate but if the call had to go another 2 hundred yards to my Grandma's it was a long distance call.

Back then in the dogs, like everything else, people wrote letters, mailed them and then wait for a response. The dogs were localized a little more because there was a lot of driving involved to talk dogs.

It seems like that was a hundred years ago.

EWO

[EWO]

And to spiral from there, back then it was easier to get help as a new guy. For two reasons, one it was a better time to be in the dogs, and two the new guy had to put out some actual effort to receive help/guidance.

I rode a bike 6 plus miles just to rake shit and haul water as a 15 year old. Back then a guy would have to drive a number of hours or a number of miles to interact with a dog man.

Now times are different. Everything is expected on the instant. Instant message, facebook, message boards, wirelss.free long distance.

It is hard to get a feel for a guy via the internet vs. him driving X-amount of hours and standing in your yard.

Basically times change.

EWO

[CYJ]

Ditto Bulldoghistorian. V.J. was doing well the last time I spoke with him a few months back. Need to give him a check up call though. V.J. is no longer active and has a handful of dogs. Believe a younger Mexican dog man has some of his stock left. Uses some of what was left of those dogs crossed to some of his own choice of dogs.

V.J. and our best time in the dogs were in the 70's. The 70's and 80's were the better years for most serious dog men back then. He was active to a point into the 80's and 90's,some in the 2000 years, after moving back to Texas.

I always felt our dogs needed a good infusion of the original Colby bloodline. Found out a few years back that V.J. knew and had one of the Colby families descendants that still had some of those Colby dogs. Living not far from where he lived. Wished he had at least bred one of his best bitch dogs to one of those Colby stud dogs.

I was working on a blend of Carver/Creel/ Coplin/Boudreaux/Ed Crenshaw dogs blend of descended dogs. My brood Bitches were old,a hateful dog man killing some of my main dogs and I was getting old. Time and the will just gave out. LOL

Overtime with no safe access to a good veterinarian/medications and strict federal/State laws. I was getting close to a very nice retirement package so cashed it all in.

No doubt this incredible breed of dogs are so addictive. No one really ever gets it out of their system. If one ever held a game dog between their legs,feel the lean of the dog into your arms and that tail whipping your back legs. When release your dogs is sounded,there is a adrenal rush that no drug can duplicate to the mind or body.

I have seen some deep game to dead game dogs that would raise the hair on your neck and make you want to weep. I was not able to go.V.J. said that Ozzie's Homer dog was so incredibly game in the JeepxHomer match. That on Homer's last scratch he felt the hair stand up on his neck and arms. Cheers

[S_B]

No doubt this incredible breed of dogs are so addictive. No one really ever gets it out of their system. If one ever held a game dog between their legs,feel the lean of the dog into your arms and that tail whipping your back legs. When release your dogs is sounded,there is a adrenal rush that no drug can duplicate to the mind or body.

Yes Sir!!! :)

S_B

[EWO]

HC said the same about Homer. He said Homer went when he maybe should not have. He said it was the only dog he ever seen that if he quit at the end he'd take him home anyway. LOL

EWO