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"They run to catch and tree to stay!"
Big game bred Blueticks born to strike, trail
and tree America's toughest game. These hounds are fast, tough,
extremely cold-nosed, loud bawl-mouthed, track-driving and game
crazy. They run to catch and tree to stay, with lots of grit, desire
and determination.
I have hunted my hounds for a living and I
breed the hounds I hunt. These hounds have been hunted with great
success on coon, bobcat, lion, bear, boar and jaguar from Canada to
Central America. Cameron Hounds are sought after by professional and
government hunters throughout the West and white hungers in Africa
as well as by sport hunters everywhere. Today's Cameron Hounds have
been tomorrow's legends for more than 45 years.
 I have
raised pups for myself that started trailing and treeing cats at
three and four months of age, then began to strike wild bear off the
box at six months and treed wild cub bear at nine months. They have
cold trailed and treed lion as early as seven months to one year.
Cameron Hounds are medium size weighing 60 - 70 pounds, are
extremely cold-nosed and people friendly. Most have long bawling
voices that sound like a ram's horn.
My breeding program is
family-centered around outstanding individuals that came from niche
matings of outstanding individuals generation after generation. This
concentrates the qualities I want and maintains these dominant
traits. The results can be measured by the many hunters that bought
pups from me over 45 some years and have claimed the Cameron Hounds
to be the coldest nosed, big game gettingest hounds they have ever
seen.
These hounds are high-energy, high-drive hounds. They are the
kind that can be hunted in the roughest country day after day after
day. They hold up when others fade. They keep going when others give
up. They are exceptional hard-driving, long-staying game getters
that know no quit. Contrary to some opinions, hounds don't have to
be huge to look like hounds. These hounds are like those we had 50
years ago. They look like hounds, they sound like hounds and they
hunt like hounds. They are extremely cold-nosed, loud-voiced and
don't straddle a track. They are not bred to get degrees or ribbons
but to put game in trees.
Cameron Hounds have also been used successsfully for man trailing
in search and rescue missions as well as in law enforcement work.
Their versatility for this kind of tracking is due to their
cold-nose abilities and their high intelligence. Others are using
Cameron Hounds as foundation stock to breed into their own hounds to
get a colder nose, better looks and determined hunting abilities for
coon and big game.
I do not have 50 brood bitches to supply everyone with pups all
the time. You would not want that kind anyway. Choice selective
breeding takes time and this kind of hound is not mass produced. You
just don't get hounds like this any other way. Shipping has become
prohibitive. Buyers who can pick up their pup have the best chance
of getting one.
Pure
Cameron pups when I have them are good-looking and early-starting
from pack leaders that are very intelligent and outgoing with good
homing instincts. They try to please and most make top strike dogs
from rig or dry ground. Call for availability and price. Phone :
406-777-5224
What One Hunter Said About Cameron
Hounds more than 45 Years Ago:
I received this letter on a
pair of pups I sold to Oregon - dated August, 1965.
Dear
Del,
The pups you sent were in good health and condition upon
arrival. You can be very proud of the quality hounds you are
offering. Hounds such as these don't just happen and hunters can be
grateful that breeders with your high standards do exist. The
determination and intelligence displayed by these young hounds on
their first run was remarkable. Rattler's voice must be still
bouncing around those canyons because anything that real just
couldn't disappear. They will never be for sale as long as I can
keep hounds.
Sincerely,
Glenn Dexter, Gold Beach,
Oregon
  
Here is what hunters today say about
Cameron Hounds:
"Everybody I've talked to about a Bluetick
says to get a Cameron hound." - Utah
"I'm so impressed with
the puppy I got from you that I'm sending money today for another
one." - Oregon
"So many dogs these days don't have any
bottom, but your hounds are about as tough as hounds get." - New
Mexico
"Your hounds cold trail better than most local-bred
dogs and run a bad track faster." - Arizona
"The pup I got
from you started running bear at five months. Now my Walker can't
outrun her." - Idaho
"These hounds can cold trail when others
don't know a track is there." - Montana
"My Cameron Hound is
as fine a hound as I've ever seen. She can do it all on bobcat, lion
and bear on dry ground." - Utah
"If your hounds get any
better than the three pups we got from you, they will hit the ground
running when they are born." - Oregon
"If I had it to do all
over again, I would start out with Cameron hounds." - Washington
Here's More:
"I thought I had
good hounds till I got some from you." - Idaho
"The pup
I got from you has NO FEAR! He is always right in a bayed bear's
face - Virginia
"The female pup I got from you has become the
hardest hunter and tree hound I've ever seen !" - Canada
"I
am tickled pink with both my pups' conformation and intelligence." -
New Mexico
"My pup about tore the cage apart on the first
coon he ever saw." - Ohio
"Both my 8 month old female Cameron
Hounds bay a training bear right in it's face." -
Tennessee
"My pup is already doing as good as any grown hound
I've ever had." - Oregon
"The pup I got from you became my
best hound for Jaguar before he was 2 years old" -
Guatemala
"My Cameron female won the 1992 AKC Pennsylvania
State Championship." -Pennsylvania
"I'm sure excited about
the pup you sent me. I'll be ordering another one soon." - New
York
"I've just not seen nicer pups." -
Tennessee
"Once you get a Cameron Hound, you will want
another." - Indiana
Still More:
"The pup I got from
you is one of the best I've seen. She now starts her own lion, bear
and bobcat on dry ground, bays a mean bear close and is a great tree
dog. She forced a lion ahead of my other hounds at the edge of a
cliff where it cut her face, but she kept it there and never gave an
inch. And she caught a bobcat by herself and kept it treed for four
hours till we found her. I am very impressed and sending a check for
another pup." - Professional Hunter, New Mexico
"Twenty one
hounds were turned out on a bear and this 17 month old Cameron Hound
caught and bayed it by herself and held it for an hour before some
of the others got to her. I want to order another one." -
Idaho
"The male pup you sent me ran and treed the first time
out and has never run any off-game. I've had hounds all my life and
this is the second best hound I've ever had." - Florida
"My
Cameron Hound cold-trailed lion at eight months by himself, then
struck, trailed and bayed a big bear till I got to him when he was
11 months old. He is outstanding. I'm sending money for another
one." - Oregon
"My pup is a beauty and looks like those I got
years ago." - New York
"This Cameron Hound at seven months
cold-trailed and bayed wild boar ahead of veteran dogs. He would
grab hogs and not let go. A year later he struck the first lion he
ever smelled on dry ground and treed it by himself. He works a cold
track in hot weather like an old hound by licking rocks and picking
scent off the brush. On the first bear he ever ran, he was the last
of 12 hounds turned out and the only hound still on the bear at
dark. We could hear him above everything else during the day and
found him treed by himself the next morning. He's a one-dog bear
pack. I would like to get another pup from you." -
California
"The Cameron pup you sent me is the most
houndy-looking pup I've ever seen and has a voice like nothing
else." - Canada
"My
young Cameron Hounds struck a huge 450 pound bear, fought it close
in real rough country and forced it to tree. They held it
there for several hours bawling furiously till we could get to them
and kill it. It's skull measured just under the Record Book
minimum." - New Mexico
  
The Latest:
"I've never seen
anything like how these Cameron pups I got from you get after a cat.
They are fanatics and can pick up a track when nothing else can." -
Arizona
"My Cameron Hound is as good as any I've seen and
he's been that way since a pup. His feet are tough as steel. He can
handle dry ground, rock and hot weather as good as anything at 15
months." - Utah
"My Cameron Hound is the best lion dog I've
ever had. Hunters who see him say he is fantastic and have never
seen anything like him." - Idaho
"The Cameron pup I got from
you is doing great on coon and has been on some bear. He is real
cold-nosed and can find a coon track when nothing else can." -
Virginia
"Our Cameron Hound is doing just great. He's been
treeing bobcats, Canada lynx and mountain lions. One was a 190 pound
tom! No one here has seen anything like him." - Canada
"My
Cameron female trees hard on coon with a loud bawl, just no quit in
her. She also is a grand show champion!" - Iowa
"A friend
couldn't start a bear track he saw so I went the next day with the
Cameron female I got from you and she took the track and treed the
bear!! People here can't believe it." - California
"I am
very happy with the pup I got from you this fall. He sure has a lot
of hunt in him. At 4 months he was on his first lion and trailed and
treed excellent!! So far this year he's been on 4 lions and 2
bobcats. He caught one of the bobcats on the ground and gave it a
good fight. I have had a lot of good comments from everyone who has
seen him and he is worth his weight in gold to me already. I want to
get some more from you and phase out my other hounds. I can hunt my
Cameron Hounds here on dry ground and have less competition when
others need snow." - Nevada
"I just can't say enough about
the quality of hounds that you have produced" - West
Virginia
"The pup I got from you is truly unbelievable. He
has been treeing coons since he was 5 months old and has now treed
lions at 7 months. I am very pleased and am sending a check for
another pup. Thanks for breeding this kind of hound!" -
Wyoming
"Wise houndsmen can learn a lot from Cameron. He
still breeds the whole hound, a game getter under a wide range of
conditions." - Larry Mueller - Outdoor Life Hunting Dogs
Editor.
Read more about the Cameron Hounds in the
classic book
"Call Of The
Hounds."
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