Catahoula Leopard Dog

And a friend of mine, his uncle had this big farm.

And he had Catahoula leopard hounds.

And he raised them on this farm.

And that's the Louisiana state dog, these Catahoulas.

And they're hound dogs.

They're floppy-eared dogs.

And then a guy that I had given a dog to, I actually had given him a male and a female.

He started breeding them.

The water of Black River is rather clearer than the Ohio and of a warm temperature.

Which it may receive from the water flowing into it from the valley of the Mississippi, particularly by the Catahoula.

At noon on the twenty-third, by a good meridian observation, they ascertained their latitude to be thirty, thirty-six, twenty-nine north, and were then a little below the mouths of the Catahoula, Ouachita, and Bayou Tenza, the united waters of which form the Black River.

The current is very gentle the whole length of the Black River, which in many places does not exceed eighty yards in width.

The banks on the lower part of the river present a great luxuriance of vegetation and rank grass, with red and black oak, ash, pecan, hickory, and some elms.

Geese and ducks are not yet abundant, but are said to arrive in myriads with the rains and winter's cold.

They shot a fowl of the duck kind, whose foot was partially divided and the body covered with a bluish or lead-colored plumage.

On the morning of the twenty-second, they observed green matter floating on the river, supposed to come from the Catahoula and other lakes and bayous of stagnant water, which, when raised a little by rain, flow into the Black River.

Wanna make sure I'm not missing it.

So we have the Catahoula Leopard Dog.

Right.

Is that how you say it?

Ma- Midwest too.

I will throw, I will throw the Midwest under the bus for that.

But my sister, weirdly enough, two days ago sent me a picture of a Catahoula Leopard Dog.

Hmm.

Well, I, I think he's something like that.

We have him down as Catahoula.

As a Catahoula.

Now, uh, the head, you know, I don't know enough about Catahoulas to say, "Oh, yeah, definitely, 100%." And besides, you know, he was a...

He's been around to a couple of different homes because, remember, he has one great flaw, and that is that he is basically blind.

And-

Let's remind folks what a great dog we have in Rocco.

Okay.

It's not the most important thing because if the dog won't hunt, it doesn't matter, but why feed an ugly dog? There are plenty of good-looking ones that will hunt just fine, but appearance should never be the deciding factor in breeding.

I watched it destroy the Catahoula breed with the fur mommies breeding for leopard, spotting, and glass eyes with no regard for performance.

Interesting.

There was another one on here I wanted to touch real quick.