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I just started comp hunting and I have wished alot that my dog would cover another dog if he cant get a good track going. I went to 9 hunts this summer and I got one first with my 16 month old dog. He was by himself treeing by himself thats the way he prefers to hunt. I do wish he would cover instead of taking a bad track he cant finish. I am hoping that since he is young and likes doing it on his own, once he gets a little age he could be a good dog for me. I do feel more proud when people see he can do the work from start to finish just hard to win.

what i want out of a dog is for it to take it's track... run it to finish and stayed hooked. if he is in a cast and does that, runs the track by himself and gets treed by himself great! if he runs a track with three other dogs and gets beat to the tree because another dog gets it worked out faster or is maybe quicker to tree while mine is still checking then that is fine with me also. the dog that trees first gets rewarded with more points. this is the point of the competition hunt. i don't want a dog that refuses to tree with other dogs. i have seen these very independant dogs leave a tree when other dogs cover or drop a track they are all working and move on to something else if another dog gets treed ahead of them. but as some one else said earlier a dog that stands with you until it hears another dog open or runs from 300yds to the left to 200 yards to the right just to cover another dog that is treeing is not one i would want to own either.

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