The Way It Should Be
Bill Wendell, Southwick, MA
The Chase, April, 1984 Page Two & Three

1.    Start hunting young.
2.    Learn pedigrees as they are a record of what is behind a hound.
3.    Learn something of genetics--what applies to us is the same with any animal below us.
4.    You do not inbreed brother to sister, mother to son, or father to daughter.
5.    If you lines are what you want, you can put it on the top and bottom of a pedigree.  (Line breed)
6.    Find out the lines you want.  Then run with the people that have them.  If you like them, get them.   Stay a week and             run.  Bring your
three best and then compare.
7.    If a hound quits or babbles, then send him on a long trip.
8.    The female is 75% of any cross, have seen outstanding ones, 8 crosses and all good.
9.    If you are going to breed to a standing stud, go run with him.  If owner will not run him, forget it.
10.  Let the hounds do the talking, not the owner.
11.  The closer you are on a Red Fox, the better you run him.
12.  A hound must throw his head back and take the scent out of the air.
13.  Hunting is wonderful if they hit a track open and then look for the "Boy" that made the track.
14.  Trailing is fine if you jump and run.  If you set on the bench in football and talk, and never get in the game, you accomplish nothing.
15.  When a hound loses a fox and stays where he lost the fox, he is getting further behind "Red Boy," he must swing and find which way he went,
he will be closer than when he lost him.
16.  Speed and drive is the ability to stay on your Fox, few checks, the Hound is the boss, not the fox.
17.  When a fox plays games of his own, it is a sorry race.
18.  No hunter is the greatest.  If you do not know the answer, find someone who does.
19.  Competition is what hounds are for.  Run with other hunters that have good foxes, and let the hounds do the talking.
20.  Stay with your hounds--you then learn what really happens.
21.  Help the hunter that goes to a field trial and has a pedigree of one of his females and ask 50 hunters how to breed her.  They all tell him, and
then he goes home and breeds her to a coon dog.
22.  Friendship with hounds is outstanding, things you will never forget the rest of your lives.
23.  Speed is wonderful, but you must have the nose to go with it.
24.  Breeding good hounds is great if you do what you want yourself, but it takes work, brains, and a lot of research.  You can listen to others two
years, get confused, then do it on your own.
25.  The buddy system is fine in life, but when we go to a trial, leave it at home.  Judge the hound, not the owner.
26.  When you buy a new car, you drive it, the same with a hound.  Don't buy until you run it.
27.  Get together, have good times, find good fox, help each other, you only go this way once!

May you have long races and may God bless you all.