Grande Bleu de Gascogne Hound Bloodlines

After corresponding for many years with Bob Matcheck, and studying his old Oo Grant Bloodlines, and talking to him, we met in Montana USA in 1996. It was through Bob that my interest and focus shifted towards the ancient origins of all scent hounds. (France)

Our first importation of French hounds was Guss 1, from Mrs. Scales in England. Her hounds originated from Mr. Jean Menasol in Paris.

Our second importation we imported 2 Petit blue, Gascognes from Mr. Rene Favre, in Veilly La Genete, France. From Mr. Favre we imported Aldo and Hautess in 1994.

We met Mr. Claude Le Cheire in the same year and very impressed by his dog, “Ceasar”. We decided to import some of this genetics. We did so later when we imported Uranus in 2002.

Dogo Argentino Bloodlines

After studying ancient historic manuscripts from authors like Guston Phoebus and King Maude about treaties of ancient European hunting, I was intrigued by the mention of the “Alaunt”, “Alant” or “Alano” which according to Alfonso XI was burlier than the greyhound but smooth coated and handsome, it had short erect ears which was trimmed to a point. The most favorite colour was white with black patches around the ears or tail.

It was used against large game such as Bear and Boar. This is how I came to be interested in the Dogo Argentino Breed and History.

Treeing Walkers and Foxhound Bloodlines

We imported 2 Walkers, Joe and Rocky from Mr. Worth Nixon in Liby Montana (USA), where they hunt primarily Mountain Lion and Bob Cat. These  lines are proven to be excellent cat hounds.

Al my Foxhound bloodlines comes from Mr. Eldrid Wicks (Kokstad) KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. We bought numerous dogs from which we selected the ones that had the desirable traits that we liked.

Bluetick Coon Hound Bloodlines

Our Blue-tick coonhound bloodlines were imported in 1983 as prominent hounds in our breeding pack from Warren J Haslauer of Smokey River Kennels in Antlers, Oklahoma. Our first import was Diamond Jim’s Son, called Reagan. We later imported a bitch out of Smokey River Pete and a dog out of Smokey River, River Combs Jack.

Our next importation 1989 was from Bill and Cathy Reynolds. We imported 4 hounds, Bumper 1, Sailor, Curley and Sadie. These hounds had their origins from Albert Vaughan’s famous dog, Vaughan’s Blue Buck.

In ’94  we imported “Bumper” from John J. Hennaman in New York State, he is from Minisink Valley Kennels. Bumpers dad was Minisink Valley Hank. On his Mother’s side he was out of the famous Hammer lines, from Dave Dean.