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hunting a dog alone is very important in finishing the dog into a complete coon dog. But I have seen some dogs who where hunted alone so much that when another dog was put in the mix the LONER could not hold pressure because it was never hunted with any other dogs. If a dog has never had pressure applied how can you know what it would do in those situations. I think a coon dog should be hunted with other dogs through out its training so it can learn how to get ALONE and stay under pressure. JMO.....but yes a dog needs to be able to tree coon alone or in company. preferred alone.

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Bobby, Me too babble mouths beat the real coondog almost always. Everyone knows that, when the dog treeing coon withdraws well guess what the me too dog never gets treed again. Perfect exsample I hunted the zone a few yrs back. I had a bad 1st drop my dog got out of the pocket across a rd and down a fence row. The other 3 dogs got treed in front of us they had a coon. I called time out to get mine he had a coon but couldn't score it. After that they stayed together as mine slammed coon after coon. The me too dog won with 1225, I just couldn't make upfor that 1st coon. My dog had every 1st tree but the 1st one were he got alone and couldn't score. The dog that won the cast never had a 1st tree. Low and behold he was the only dog that yr that did not tree a coon in 2 hrs when he had to hunt alone at the world.

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Originally posted by amazingcursouth
hunting a dog alone is very important in finishing the dog into a complete coon dog. But I have seen some dogs who where hunted alone so much that when another dog was put in the mix the LONER could not hold pressure because it was never hunted with any other dogs. If a dog has never had pressure applied how can you know what it would do in those situations. I think a coon dog should be hunted with other dogs through out its training so it can learn how to get ALONE and stay under pressure. JMO.....but yes a dog needs to be able to tree coon alone or in company. preferred alone.

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Originally posted by River Birch Run
Bobby, Me too babble mouths beat the real coondog almost always. Everyone knows that, when the dog treeing coon withdraws well guess what the me too dog never gets treed again. Perfect exsample I hunted the zone a few yrs back. I had a bad 1st drop my dog got out of the pocket across a rd and down a fence row. The other 3 dogs got treed in front of us they had a coon. I called time out to get mine he had a coon but couldn't score it. After that they stayed together as mine slammed coon after coon. The me too dog won with 1225, I just couldn't make upfor that 1st coon. My dog had every 1st tree but the 1st one were he got alone and couldn't score. The dog that won the cast never had a 1st tree. Low and behold he was the only dog that yr that did not tree a coon in 2 hrs when he had to hunt alone at the world.

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Bobby, I Know what stud dogs your talking about I live in the heart of $kc land in OH. I see these dogs all week. Plus in the middle of coon country don't help. Thats why the good honest coondogs in my area don't win as much as the "other" type. Dogs from the south don't do as well here although I have hunted with several in the past yr. that are nice hounds. Its hard to win with them because they like to get alone to a falt. Last strike and a mile in the country hurts you when a dog can stay in one woods and get treed with a coon 2 or 3 times. The dog I will be pushing this yr is an honest 1st strike dog that will flat out slam coon on you. But he will cover a dog faster than you can tree yours too. He can grub up a track if he has to as well and not take all nite. He uaslly ends the nite with a split tree or two after he settles down. He is a comp style dog and a ton of fun to hunt as a 2 yr old. But he has his holes as all dogs do, and thats why he gets hunted all week long alone working on getting him better at what he struggles with.