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Anybody else got one? I’ve been very impressed with mine.

Had one for a few years. Was a pound rescue I suspect was abused. We tried training the dog but it didn't go too well. Good looking dog though.

Any Cur breed is a good dog. If they weren't they wouldn't have been around so long. My best dog was an Original Mountain Cur. She had more sense than most people.

I have what is supposed to be a Mtn Cur Plott cross.
He’s all black, hunt drive is off the chart.
Loves to fish, best dog I’ve ever had.
Smart great eyesight.
Would love to breed him to another good dog.

I've had a couple of leopard curs both kind of chocolate colored with glass eyes. Both were good dogs for deer hunting when I used to do that. Neither would bark unless they could see the deer. The first one I owned back in the 1970s. He was unbelievably fast and the problem was how fast the deer was moving when he came by. He would take down a wounded deer. The second one showed up as a hungry pup in the 1980s after I became a game warden. I didn't hunt with him but used him to find illegally killed deer where they were stashed around camps or to help hunters track down a wounded deer. He wouldn't bark or bay until he was looking at the deer. As a fairly young dog maybe 4 or 5 years old he took to wasting away and died. Probably cancer. When I was in Tok Alaska in 2016 I talked to a gold prospector that had 2 Catahoulas with him. He said he got them in California. They are kind of wary in personality and if they are biters they tend to sneakily come up from behind and grab a person. Never known one to seriously injure anyone unless he had a pretty good dose of pit mixed in.

We have one that the whole family loves. That said....they are not a dog for everyone. Ours can swim and retrieve like a Lab or Golden, which makes for a really fun companion dog. She is darn smart, has a great nose, and is heck on varmints. She doesn’t like to be petted or messed with. She just like to play or be given a job to do. Our is on the smaller side at about 40 lbs, but she can really haul azz!

I haven’t read this thread at all. But, my outfitter buddy I B.C. runs em for bear, lynx, and cougar , with great success. Badass dog if ya got the time to spend with em... my B.C. mtn caribou hunt we had a catahoula by our side daily, super cool pooch. RIP bozo

My last one was named Bozo. Good dog

I've got two. Both aholes. One has bitten several people, so we have to be pretty careful with him. The other has the cracked glass eyes and you can never tell where she is looking. Both were rescue pups that we got several years apart. I give them a good home, but I won't miss them when they're gone.