Hillis' Yellow Black Mouth Curs
Ladner Bloodline All the Way!
I take pride in breeding
the best to the best!
Hillis' Yellow Black Mouth Curs
About Us
~Information About Hillis Black Mouth Curs and its Beginning~
Welcome to Hillis Blackmouth curs!
I'm sure glad that you stopped by to view my Ladner Yellow Blackmouth curs!
Here in Northeast Texas, squirrel and coon hunting is a way of life that has been passed down for generations. Squirrel and coon hunting with dogs has been a passion of Paul's for many years. I try to raise hunting dogs that have one desire-to hunt the game and get treed. Our dogs are purebred, original Ladner black mouth curs, registered with NKC and Black Mouth Cur Association. We have hunted these dogs throughout the years. Paul would mostly hunt for pleasure, but use to also enjoy competition hunting!
We are proud of our squirrel and coon dogs and proud to live in Northeast Texas!
My husband, Paul Hillis, has had hunting dogs all of his life, or at least since he was 8 years old. He bought his first Ladner Black Mouth Cur in 2003. So I (Marilyn Hillis) decided to build a website so that I could share what wonderful dogs that black mouth curs have proven to be over and over again.
In December of 2009, I did exactly that!(www.hillisblackmouthcurs.com).
Just so you fully understand, I want to convey that all of the pictures you see on my website are before December 28, 2009, except for two of them. In 2021 GoDaddy made it a mandatory requirement for me to redo and update my website. To preserve my precious memories, I just moved my old pictures over to the new website.
I love and enjoy our Black Mouth Cur dogs and I cherish the memories of our dogs who are not with us any longer!
On numerous occasions people ask, " why do I sell these dogs so cheap?" My reply is, "I am more concerned about preserving the breed than making a huge profit! " The preservation of the Hillis Black Mouth Curs Ladner bloodline is important to me. The reason I feel so strong about keeping this alive is because hunting and training these dogs were Paul's favorite hobby and past time. Our boys were still at home and they also enjoyed helping us care for our dogs.
Paul began having major health problems He already had two existing disabilities that he has battled for years, and in 2013 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Due to these facts, he was going to get rid of all of our Black Mouth Cur dogs! I refused to let the this happen, and I asked him to choose five of the best dogs that all go back to Mr L. H. Lander's old dog's bloodline. We chose very carefully and I am happy with the outcome.
Sadly, Paul's pride and joy, Texas Flash, died of old age. The positive point of this is that I have a male directly out of Texas flash and he is 2 years old. We say that he is a chip off the old block! He is a hard tree dog and we named him Flash Back!
Ladner Bloodline
These dogs are bred for ability and intelligence which is one reason that they are so versatile. They have a strong natural desire to please their master. Most can be controlled by the tone of voice that the master uses and they can be trained to do anything. These Curs are very good natured and are very good around children. We have seen many that were vicious kill dogs on varmints, yet play with a child using extreme care not to hurt them. These Curs intelligence and natural ability shows in the ease with which they can be trained. You don't have to be a professional trainer or expert to get a good treedog with the Ladner Curs. They only need to be exposed to the woods and the game to do what comes natural for them.
If you notice in one of my videos, Rusty, is in the house enjoying our cow rug and playing with his ball, then in another video Rusty is in the woods treeing squirrels. That is just one example of the nature of these Ladner Blackmouth Cur dogs.
Hello my name is ~Paul Hillis~
I was ten years old when I saw a yellow blackmouth cur for the first time. I had gone home to spend the night with a first cousin of mine. He had a cousin that lived next door to him who was our age. They owned a yellow blackmouth cur dog that they called Crook (due to a crooked tail). Somewhere around 8:00 a.m. that Saturday morning us boys went walking in the woods behind their house and ole Crook followed us. It was not long until we came upon a creek and we were about to cross the creek when that ole yellow blackmouth cur started treeing on a big whiteoak tree. There were six squirrels up that one tree and ole Crook was telling us about it. That was the day that I came to love cur dogs. I went home telling my parents all about that yellow blackmouth cur and it was not long until my mother got me the book Old Yeller. After reading that book that really got me going sure enough then!
Well I have tried a lot of dogs through the years and they never would turn out like ole Crook or Old Yeller. I was just about to give up until I read about Mr. L.H. Ladner having the original yellow blackmouth curs, that have been in his family for something like 100 plus years. Then is when I decided to drive to Mr. Ladners house, me and 2 of my sons, David & Timothy. I sat down with L.H. at his kitchen table and it didn't take me long to realize that I was talking to a man that really knew black mouth curs. Later that morning he took us out to show us all of his dogs. I looked through about 4 different litters of puppies before finding the 2 pups I liked the best. I bought these puppies from Mr. Ladner and this was in 2003. We drove on back to Texas that night and 8 months later I realized that I had found Crook and Old Yellers ancestors . Those two puppies, one male and the other female, had made me the dogs I had been looking for. They are the two dogs in the picture with me on my home page. I have owned lots of Ladner Cur dogs over the last 20 plus years. I only breed the best to the best. Nobody takes more pride in breeding up good dogs than I do and that's a Promise!
Photo Gallery
I enjoy hunting and training my dogs to be the best at what they love to do.
These dogs have a love for hunting!
This is Rusty in the drawing.
Hillis' Texas Flash
Texas Flash
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