When I first met V.J. and visited his yard. He had Sundown and two young dogs off Sundown that were called Rock and Bud Wiezer. All good dogs. Did not know what bitch he used to get those dogs. May have been the Jackson's Pepper bitch. He had her and the Hank dog. Hank was a young dog at the time. We did not know how great a dog he would become.

Sun Down was a reddish buckskin with a black mask. Looked similar in build to the Sorrels dogs. Sun Down was bought when V.J. lived in Florida. A friend of V.J.'s told him about a crazy acting bulldog his neighbor had for a pet. But could do nothing with the dog. Was fight crazy and would attack his lawn mower if he tried to use it.

V.J. bought Sun Down with his UKC papers for $50.00. I considered Sun Down the second best show dog V.J. ever owned after the Hank dog. Sun Down had a hard mouth would work out every hold to the hilt. Was a hard charging in your face Mike Tyson brawler. It was kill or be killed with this dog. No quarters given or taken. Would scratch so hard could almost knock the other handler out of his corner. The skin on this dog's head would start moving all around on his head like crazy. Would start popping and chattering his teeth when he saw you were carrying him to a show ring. W. Truett to this day still considers Sun Down one of the best dogs he ever saw shown and that V.J. owned.

Sun Down was the dog that beat A.Brewer's CH Chief dog. Was a good match but Chief could not keep Sun Down off him no matter what he tried. Atlas had to pick Chief up to save him. We all lost a lot of these dogs early in their lives due to Heart Worms. Was a new thing to most of us. Arsenic treatments back then could be as bad as the heart worms.

Lost Sun Down and Hank to the heart worms. Never got to bred any of my Hank Tina bitches back to the Hank dog. Or the Sunshine Tina bitches back to Sunshine. V.J. sent one Sunshine x Tina bitch to Mayfield called Tish to breed back to Sunshine. Mayfield kept her for himself and bred her back into his dogs. Was called Mayfield's Tish.