Bass' Tramp Red Boy (Wendell Martin's)

[CYJ]

Ditto Treezbulldogs. V.J. had only two sons and a daughter. That may or not be true,as I believe V.J.'s oldest son might have had a drug problem. His name was Chad or maybe Brad. Pretty sure by now he has long recovered from all that.The youngest one was a super smart intellectual type and had no real interest in the dogs.

I asked V.J. if he had tutored another young dog man along the way. He let a young Mexican dog man live on his place to help watch over their dog yards. This fellow has some of V.J.'s earlier bred dogs and some of his own. He may well end up with any of those dogs left. V.J. himself is down to just a handful of dogs.

Those dogs changed a lot from the earlier dogs we had. Adding the Creel & Bully Son stock to our older family of dogs. Increased the size and looks of the dogs a good bit. It was my understanding from some other dog men, that some years back V.J. got very sick and was laid up in the hospital for close to a year. I was told he lost some dogs during that time.

Jackson's very best years in the dogs was back in the 70's,80's, he was way ahead in conditioning knowledge and feeding methods back then. He won twenty nine shows before losing his first show. Vernon lived close to Don Mayfield and learned some things from him.

When living in Florida he spent time either in Georgia or a Florida Veterinarian college. Asking the Professors all sorts of questions about feeding performance dogs etc. He told me some of those Professors would sit for a good while discussing all sorts of dog topics with him.

V.J. grew up around various known Texas dog men and lived in Florida for awhile before moving to S.C. He was good friends with all those Georgia- Florida dog men like Baker Davis/Hands/Hargrove/Ramsey/McDougal/Divine etc. Cheers