Had a Catahoula when I was a kid. To this day, I don't know what happened to it (was told a story by my Dad, but never believed it). I loved that dog.
Best all-around dog I've ever had. Mine was choclate and tan with black leopard spotting. One blue eye and one yellow or green. The only true can do anything dog and still play with the kids, as well as baby sit and watch over htem outside if you raise a puppy with your child. Used to put a wiemeraner mix in the hog pen with it and that bird dog picked up hog baying with the catahoula.
Read customer reviews for certain breeders where their dog would sit on the porch for a few days and watch the owner move his cows. On the 3rd or 4th day the owner came out heading to the cattle gate and the dog took off. Opened the gates and went and sat on the porch and the dog moved the cattle to the other field in 30 minutes. That was the last time he spent 2 hours moving them himself.
Catahoula owners have a saying. It's the only dog you can take hog baying, deer hunting, squirell hunting, rabbit hunting, and bird hunting and come home and play with the kids all in the same day. They are also being used as guard, sniffer, and rescue dogs.
Mine loved everyone except one person, one of my old bosses that kept a trailer at my house. That dog never took a liking to him and would bark and stare him down till he left.
Don't even poop in the yard if you walk your property line and teach it to them. THey will do their business there.
Mine died of bone cancer. Only Pup my breeder ever sold that ever came down with that type illness. The mixed dog died of heart break a month later. They were hand sized pups together and it seriously shut down when the catahoula died.