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CH Bear Pen Plott Boss
Entered by: Steve Fielder
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Weight
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55 to 60 pounds
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Description
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Dark brown brindle - no white
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Dob
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6/5/1979
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Owner Sire
Gene White of Knoxville, TN
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Owner Dam
Homon Fielder of Beckley, WV
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Bear Pen Plott Boss was a litter mate to Bear Pen Plott Brandy. Boss and Brandy were the two pups we kept out of the cross of CH Bear Pen Fancy to Gene White's White Hollow Little Junior dog.
At Plott Days in 1978 in Rockville, Indiana, the late Jim Cornwell of Florida brought a wild hog and had it in a pen in the stock barns. Several guys were letting their Plotts bay the hog. My dad and I were standing next to Gene White as we watched. This went on for some time with not much action, just a lot of booger-barking. All of a sudden, Gene spun on his heel and left the barn. In short order he returned with two tight-wound, black-backed Plott males and when the other dogs were cleared away, he released these two dogs on the hog. The best way to describe the scene was that it looked like one of those comic book fights where Dagwood was fighting his neighbor Herb and all you could see was a cloud of dust and a foot here and there as it stuck out of the dust cloud. In less time than I can tell you about it, the dogs had the hog caught. One dog had him by an ear and the other by a back leg and they stretched him. One of the dogs had suffered a puncture wound to the rib cage, if I remember correctly.
Those two Plotts were White Hollow Little Junior and Creasman's Killer, a littermate to NITECH CH Bear Pen Plotts Bronco's mother, Tarleton's Roberta. Killer and Roberta were out of White Hollow Junior and a female out of Kermit Allison's old Tony.
My dad was so impressed with the grit, agility, breeding, and general makeup of Little Junior that he bred CH Bear Pen Fancy to him on her next heat cycle. The result was the litter containing Boss and Brandy.
Boss was as good looking a Plott hound as I've ever laid eyes on then or since. He made Show Champion very easily but he was making a top bear dog at a young age. Dad's work was slow and he priced Boss to a hunter in Wisconsin that shall remain nameless but he will not be forgotten. The price was $1500. The guy took Boss to Wisconsin and ran him on bear. He said he was badly injured earlier in the week and then said the dog died of parvo. That incredible story didn't jive but the long and short of it was that Dad got half the money and a lesson learned in the process.
My dad remembers Boss this way: “One time we treed a bear in the afternoon and they let it come down and treed it again. I stayed with Jimmy Thomas, who had injured a foot in a fall off a ladder and couldn’t drive. When they came back one of the fellows was leading Little Butch and Boss. He pointed to them and said,'right there’s two bear dogs.' That was quite a compliment considering he hunted another breed and had never commented one way or the other about my dogs.”
Copyright 2004-2005 by Steve Fielder
"All rights reserved."
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| | NITECH Weems' Plott John (NPHA HOF) |
| | White Hollow Junior (NPHA HOF) |
| | NITECH Black River Fly |
| Sire | White Hollow Little Junior |
| | Allison's Bear Creek Tony (NPHA HOF) |
| | White Hollow Dixie |
| | Allison's Bear Creek Tip
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CH Bear Pen Plott Boss
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| | NITECH Weems' Plott John (NPHA HOF) |
| | GRCH Weems' Plott Butch (NPHA HOF) |
| | Haug's Swampland Star (NPHA HOF) |
| Dam | CH Bear Pen Fancy (NPHA HOF) |
| | Ursus Rowdy Plott (NPHA HOF) |
| | Weems' Plott Jill (NPHA HOF) |
| | Weems' Little Punch |
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