Well i guess it is time

yeah i never knew him to feed a cur so i just chalked it up to a bunch of bullshit from jealous folks.

 

very true......i guess i'm telling my age also......guess i'm the other old timer....

 

sounds that way,lol.

 

Well, I think all of us who were here while he was here, would like to hear a good one about Dave. RIP

 

Not to step on your shoes but this is an educational website. We are all here to learn and if I was an old timer, I'd pass on any knowledge or sources that relates to dogs to the younger generation as much as I can. Especially stories or photos of the past. Help those who wants to help the breed, but that's just me. To each their own I guess.

 

well.i think i have a good one for y'all.i don't know if he told you this one or not.but the story sticks out in my mind because of the content and how bad it was,lol.it all starts one day when this man who was new to the bulldogs comes out to Daves place to see his yard.he came on a recomendation from a fellow dogman who Dave had great respect for so he never questioned it.so anyways he shows up and Dave commences to start showing him around.and as they are taking the tour he asks Dave so you ever match your dogs and he replied yep only way to see what your working with son.so he said well i have a nice dog who is showing promise that i think could take anything you have on your yard,so Dave said oh you think so huh and the young man said yep i sure do.so Dave asked is he pure meaning not a mongrel or another breed of dog and he said yep 100% bulldog comes down from some nice OFRN blood so he asked him if he had a pedigree to prove it and the young man said yeah i sure do.so Dave said i want to see that and the dog because i don't think a young man such as yourself who is this new to the breed and this sport could get his hands on a nice OFRN dog.so the man obliged him and showed up the next day with his dog and a pedigree.so sure enough the dog was a red red nosed dog but something didn't add up with his pedigree so Dave pulled him on the carpet about it and the young man got very defensive and to make a long story short they got into a fist fight on Daves yard.now this fight went on for about 30 minutes i guess and Dave ended up besting him now this man was about 28 years old and Dave would have been about maybe 45 or 46 and Dave got a split lip and a black eye and some bumps and bruises and he gave this man a busted nose and knocked 2 of his teeth out along with bumps and bruises.dave was a pretty fair sized man with a short temper at that time he was about 225 and stood about 6''2 or 6''3 and to look at him in pictures you wouldn't peg him to be that big but he was.so after that he pulled the man up and said now that this is over i will meet you at this place at this time and we will see what our dogs can do.so after a month went by it was time for the match now Dave knew there was a chance for trouble because he heard it through the grapevine so he decided to take a colt peacemaker with him just in case but he left it in his truck and boy was he glad he brought it along.

CONTINUED IN NEXT POST BECAUSE IT WAS TO LONG>

 

OH NO...cliffhanger:p

 

so anyways they wash the dogs and the match begins.it was touch and go for a while and both dogs got good hold but nothing special.so this goes back and forth for a while and the dog Daves was fighting had no ears they was cut off completely he had holes in the side of his head where his ears had been.so Daves dog was a ear dog so it was pretty mad that the ears wasn't there,but it was also a smart dog who knew what it was doing.so after the break it came time to scratch again,and before either dog made the middle Daves dog was fed up and i seen it in the dogs eyes it looked to me like god damnit enough and they hit and Daves dog hit on the underside and got this dog by the testicles clamped down and shook for all it was worth.well the dog's eyes bugged out in it's head and it didn't know what to do.infact none of us knew what to think the whole place went quiet.so Dave and this other man jumped in and broke them off and the young man picked his dog up and shook Daves hand.so when all was finished Dave had his dog wrapped in a blanket and he was at the driver side placing the dog on the passenger side of the pickup,and this man and his friends came out and they threw a glass bottle and it hit the side of the bed of his truck.so Dave spun around and he seen these men all standing there with knives in their hand and the one had a metal pipe.and Dave being the onry cuss he was screamed at the top of his lung,WHAT THE HELL DO YOU SORRY SACKS OF SHIT WANT NOW. and the friend piped up and said the dog and a pound of your flesh.and they started towards him and he said is that right and reached under his seat and pulled out his gun cocked it and pulled the trigger hitting the man closest to him in the collar bone area.and he said now i reckon you boys was looking for a fight and a free dog but you forgot the most important rule of life never bring a knife to a gunfight now you got 2 seconds before i send you all home to meet what made you.so they ran about as fast as they could.so i ran over and said what happened and calm as could be he was putting the gun under his seat and he said nothing Jesse why you ask.and i said well i heard gun shots and i seen you putting your gun away.and he said oh that well they come to kill me and take my dog but i beat em to the punch.and i said well did you get hurt and he said nope but see that splatter of blood over there i said yeah he said that was who i shot i was aiming for the throat but hit the collar bone i think but it stopped him and them sons a bitches all took off pisiing there pants.they made a threat but couldn't keep it that pisses me off bad.and i said well they would have killed you if they would have went through with it and he said nope they only had knives and a pipe i had a bullet for all of them then he got in his truck and said you still coming over for lunch sunday and i said see you there and he drove off.

 

Lol priceless

 

TY for the story. This is what I was talkng about when I asked about Dogmen stories. I just enjoy reading about what formed this breed from people who experienced it.

 

Great thread...thanks for the input oldtimer. I'll be checkin in at this thread often to see the updates. BTW...I did not know you fancied boudreaux bloodlines!

 

Thnx Jesse,
I sure do miss Dave. I really enjoy being around folks who just say what they mean, and mean what they say.

Okay, now how 'bout.... a good one on Floyd, back in the young days.

 

Lol. Man you should write a book or something your experience in the bulldog world. I sure as hell would buy it.

 

As would I. Damn good thread. I bet it stays in the top for a WHILE. You mentioned before you had experiences with Bullyson. Any in the []?

 

oh yeah thats all i breed is Boudreaux they had everything i wanted and then some.

 

well that i know of ol Floyd never much done anything i would consider rowdy.he was a hard working man who ate,slept and breathed bulldogs and roosters.pretty much everything has been said about ol Floyd other than the fact that you could not ask for a better family man and he is as honest as the day is long.i remember when he got piled up with medical bills after some accidents involving his family most folks would have given up their dogs let some water out of a sinking boat but not ol Floyd he just worked harder and longer than ever and bout 20 some odd years later he was just about through paying them off didn't have to seel his home,dogs,cars nothing just did it all with hard work and savings.and if that ain't what a good man is i sure as hell don't know what is.but see i didn't get to know Floyd till we was in out mid 20's early 30's so in my experince he never did anything that i would say was rowdy or anything like that i mean he go into a few fights and things of that nature but that was about it,lol.

 

yeah i have had experinces with bullyson and i didn't like that dog.game as could be but he was crazy as a pissant.that dog wouldn't have stood a chance on my yard for his temperment.way to aggressive.out of that litter i much preferred eli Jr he was a good dog and wasn't so unpredictable but folks liked and sure do to this day like bullyson dogs and for good reason he was a good pit dog.it has been put down in the record books that when he was brought to the pit for his show in north texas he looked like the devil and i agree with that because thats exactley what he looked like just like a demon.that dog was just all around crazy in my opinion folks was even scared to handle that dog for fear he would chew on them everyone walked on egg shells when he was in the pit because you didn't know really what he was going to do you didn't know if he would go for the dog or go for the handler especially when he got riled up thats when he got bad was when he got riled up in the box between releases.but he wasn't feared more than when he was being moved especially if you had him in the car or in a station wagon because he always seemed to flip out in a car even in the back bed of a pickup truck he would flip out and forget trying to get him in a cage he would taer you alive if you tried that.i remember talking to Maurice carver after he got bullyson for conditioning and he said that on the trip over when they hauled him loose to his place that a man by the name of Raymond holt had to play with the dogs testicles in order for him to keep from fliping out.i just stood there and said well honestly in your opinion is it worth it Maurice because it sure ain't to me and he said well folks seem to think so Jesse.so i asked if i could watch him handle bullyson and for the first time in my life i seen him scared of a dog he was terrified to handle that animal and again i asked him you think it is worth it,and he said i am begining to have second thoughts Jesse but he is a good dog for the pit.now like it is know pretty well Maurice liked to move a dog he was conditioning into a seperate room for just him and the dog and to me this was one of the ways i think he did so good when it came to conditioning a dog,but not bullyson he said Jesse this dog don't like nobody all he wants to do is fight and if he can't fight dogs he will fight men so when i am done for the day with him he gets put up because i don't think i would be in the game much longer if i got close to this dog.and when it come time for tha match i remember he did something i never seen him do before he kept bullyson off the ground and dropped him instead of holding him back and releasing him,and he entered the pit last so he wouldn't have to be in there long with him 2 things i never seen him do before.but i also seen Maurice do something else i never seen him do with a dog before either during the keep he was breeding bullyson and i questioned him about it and he said ain't nothing to say Jesse just let it go and i did.but thats about the bulk of my experince with ol bullyson.and in my opinion it was enough and i commend anyone for putting up with that dog for more than 2 seconds,lol.

 

Tx, Jesse! GREAT story about Dave, and likewise, SURE do miss him...

can't hink of anything specific to ask at the moment, but just wanted to say TY for this post. ....
well, on second thought, anything intersting on Mr. Colby?.....

 

Mr Colby was also a onry cuss but he was about as peacefull as could be.he always tried to defuse something and most of the time because everyone had so much respect for him and his family it worked.but i do remember one time he had a match going in his backyard and someone was peeping trying to see.and he said well if you gonna look might as well come in or if you ain't i might as well poke that eye out.you never seen someone take off so quick in your life,lol.but yeah i miss Dave so much because we were so close we were like brothers wich is why i will know more about him than anyone else because we spent 99% of our time around each other,but i took it real hard when he went home but i am happy to know i will see that onry cuss again someday.

 

Tx Jesse. and i've no doubt Dave is saving you the seat right next to him!
RIP Dave!