Ripper did you get your puppies

[Douglas]

Ripper,
Was wounering if you got your pups and have you got pictures?

[HogRipper]

Yes Sir, I got them. I'll take some pictures and post them. I picked them up Sunday afternoon. One is fairly clam but you can tell he hasn't been around people much but the lady has spent a fair amount of time with him. The other one bit me three times breaking skin once. He wasn't coming at me to bit me just scared because he never bit down or anything. Yesterday made the third time anyone had ever had there hands on him and the other two times were to get his shots. The puppies were born in July but they are huge. The bigger one especially is huge he is already bigger than the Parker cur I have and the Parker cur is two months older. A lot of the catahoulas out of this line top out between 80 and 100 lbs. Daddy said alot of the original dogs he had were in the 85 lb range. That's a little bigger than ideal size to me but if that is what it take to get the kind of hunt in a dog I want we are going to try it.
I went by the dog yard to check on them this morning and the smaller one came to the gate but the other one stayed back near there house. He didn't act as scared though but I'm going to give them a few days to calm down. They have never been penned before. All the her puppies are born under the house or out in the woods so this is a change of lifestyle for sure. There "pen" at home is 18 acres fenced in by dog wire and the 18 acres is miles from the neariest neighbor.
I got my hands full for sure but if they will hunt the way daddy's dogs did it will be more than worth the effort. The lady had split the line way back to put a little new blood in and she brought us one out of each. The big pup that bit me is supposed to be the closest to Buck and Roxie which were Daddy's orginal two dogs.

Hog Ripper