this 9 month old stag belongs to a friend in southern utah. he introduced catahoula into his line over 10 years ago. he kept mostly merles for ID in the field. this is the first time he has had this color pattern pop up.
It's funny what can crop up sometimes. I remember years ago working with a lady with a really extensive linebreeding of blue rex rabbits that she had been working with for 20+ years and suddenly she had a pointed one crop up. She had never owned a californian marked rabbit - never had one in the barn but there he was. She went back in her paperwork to the original 8 animals she purchased and there it was. 4th generation back a single californian colored animal.
Beautiful, I saw this and immediately wondered if that breeding is any relation to the catahoula / lurchers I saw worked in Idaho but i guess that was a good 15 years ago...
no relation.
i used to have contact info for a guy in NV w/a bit of that blood in his stags. when i was the Public Affairs NCO for the recruiting station Salt Lake, i tried to stop & see Larry on the way back from an event in MT. i couldn't get a hold of him.