Catahoula Dogs
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Rancho Santiago's Catahoula Leopard Dog Project
Rancho Santiago breeds top quality Catahoulas for performance, intelligence, physical stamina, train-ability, natural hunting instinct and color as it comes. "Mules and Catahoula dogs just naturally fit together" says Dr. Jim. "We personally prefer the Catahoula breed of dogs because they have that 'good ole boy' type of hound dog people loving personality but they are tough as nails & smart. Catahoulas are quite friendly to people at the ranch, love and protect kids, compatible with mules, good barn dogs, devoted companions, and tough spirited in the hunt with no quit in them and they even come in 'camo' color." |
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... Living in the peace of the special dog/boy zone ...
This picture expresses so much about the Catahoula dog's personality. "Goober" and this boy from Arizona had never met prior to this picture. These two are communing in the dog/boy zone about 75 yards away from where this boy's family was buying hunting and trail mules.
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Rancho Santiago Catahoulas are bred to hunt and hunt for real
because we just are not into the bay pen game.
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Rancho Santiago Location and Contact Information
Rancho Santiago is located 4 miles east and 9 miles north off of highway 82 near Dickens, Texas. The ranch is 60 miles east of Lubbock, Texas, off of highway 82. Detailed directions and contact telephone numbers are available by request. Dr. Jim Gamble may be contacted by email though our Contact Form.
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Rancho Santiago Kennel Facilities
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Our kennels are located under the shade and protection of an 80 year old apricot orchard.
Having the kennels located off of the ground helps prevent disease and parasites and aides in sanitation.
Our kennels are sloped from front to back to make it easy to wash out every day. The droppings wash out behind the kennels and are easliy taken by tractor out into the pasture to fertilize the grass.
We have a nice whelping kennel house divided into two pens for whelping two bitches at at time.
The chair is in the whelping pen & one inside the house where we can sit and play with the puppies to accustom our puppies to like people and feel secure with people.
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We also want our dogs and mules around each other on a daily basis
so we turn out Catahoulas to run free on 160 acres ...it is good for dogs and good for the mules.
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