great read and yes its so hard to find a soild person to teach you the right and wrong ive been thru it ive shoveld and raised hounds for others thinking that if I help him he will bless me with the hounds that I needed to take over the world Lmao.but I was fooled I raised this mans dogs telling me this telling that I raised seven of his hounds for two years and spending my hard earn money than the I let the fat f---k stay @ my house thinking I got this great dogman in my house he was a fat Cur and this fool him and mr pope lied to me you can breed to him or her those fools took all the dogs and one of the dogs became a 1x for real kennel joe reed im sorry about that for me I do a lot of readind I taught myself a lot my REal Mentor is THE GREAT ARELLANO he gave me my first hound plus its very hard to find some one to help you and to keep 100 with you their is a lot of hate in this game But please remember their are still Soild Azz dogman and woman that are will to show you proper way on handleing your hounds