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Your Dogs Two Best Traits

This thread is ONLY for those who posted and admitted to the coonhound world ONE of their dogs flaws on the other post! Way to go everybody.

If you had the guts to do that, you should get a shot at two bragging points about your dog as far as I am concerned. I have a whole new respect for lots of different people after reading the, "flaw" thread.

C'mon now, don't be shy. If you can think of one bad thing, you sure can think of two good ones.

Heres mine:

My male dogs two best traits are that he:

a. Has a ton of desire to tree a coon(not lazy).
b. Will go till he gets one treed somewhere.

I'm looking forward to hearing everyone elses. Thanks again for the good responses.

I guess I wil be first then

Well I have several dogs
I have no idea where to start

Patch
1 has a very loud voice that caries well everywhere
2 he will not stop on a slick if the others in the cast do, he will try to carry it to the tree.

Tempi
1 She has a strange voice that sounds like very few other dogs that carries well.
2 She handles very well

Steel
1 He handles well
2 He is a very hard tree dog with a loud chop

The very best trait in all of them is they love me, no matter how bad I screw up or what I do wrong in their training. They still want to go hunting and love to tree.

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My young dog is very fast on a track and is a loud hard tree dog, and my old dog has no quit in her, she will go as long as you let her, and she handles tree pressure very good and is pretty independant.

Since my flaw was on my dogs as a group so will my strengths I guess.

1. Hunt hard and open on track quick (gave this as one, because to me one is no good without the other)
2. Get treed quick

My gyp's two best points are that she is a hard-hunting, quick strike dog, alone or in company, and she is a pressure tree dog.

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Well i gotta lotta hounds but I'll talk about the two i've actually hunted with.

True - now retired 10 y/o walker

Now True is not a comp dog and never was, she was our pup trainer and pleasure dog, so what i consider GOOD traits for her may be bad traits for a comp dog, but this is why I liked to hunt with her:

1. She would check in after 10 minutes without a strike - good for us since a lot of times we were hunting small patches and/or had to be at work in the morning, and gave us plenty of opportunities to decide to go ahead and pack it up.

2. You could call her back at any time during any condition, and she'd drop what she was doing and COME right back. You could call her off the trail or even off the tree - again good for us hunting small patches if she got over on someone elses land we didn't have to go fetch her, just call her back.

3. OK I have to go a third on on true - 100 percent trash free dog. Dwayne has had her go into a bush and seen a deer run right out and yet when you heard her next she was headed the other direction. Even hunting with other dogs that would get after a deer, she'd go off and get her coon.

Mama - 7 y/o redbone:
1. Would swim through molten lava to get to a coon - RABID prey drive. She's a genuine "slobber mouth tree dog", love to see that enthusiasm.
2. Very patient and understanding with the youngest and most annoying of pups, even the weanling babies can swing off her ears and she never so much as growls at them. We can trust her to lead the young dogs right.

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i will just comment on the female i gave the flaws on
1. 99.9% of the time when she strikes she will get treed
2. she is all business no screwing around when u turn here lose she has one thing on her mind putting mr ringtail in a tree

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Dual Grand Ch. Littlejohn's Little Arkie ...maybe the best track dog we ever had, and is a pressure treedog, i could count on one hand how many times he left a tree from a puppy till now( of course i havnt hunted him much the last 4 years)
Dual Grand Ch. Littlejohn's Blue Rock...as much heart and desire as any dog I ever saw and is the staightest dog I have ever saw.

This is for that same old female that died I posted the faults on.

SPEED, she was definately a first tree dog. She caught more than her share on the ground. That's the compliment I got most from other hunters in competition.

ACCURACY, when she treed you could load the gun cause she had the meat (cept for those couple of times a year she went crazy and had a possum, but it was still meat LOL). That's the compliment I got second most when hunting her, one guy even said "I ain't treein my dog the rest of the night unless your dog is treed". I got a kick outta that.

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I THINK THIS IS A VERY GOOD POST. MY YOUNG MALE DOG BLACK AND TAN IS ABSOULTLY COON CRAZY. HE LOVES TO HUNT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.BUT IF HE HAS A GOOD FAULT IT IS HIS LOVE TO PLEASE ME. HE DOSENT ALWAYS UNDERSTAND WHAT I WANT. I LOVE THE WAY HE TREES BELLY RUBBING AND SLINGING SLOBBER.FOR THE AMOUNT OF TIMES HE HAS BEEN HUNTED HE IS DOING O.K. WE SHARE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP ANDHE KNOWS IT. I HAVE NEVER SCOLDED OR WHIPPED HIM. DUE TO ME WORKING NIGHTS ITS HARD TO PUT HIM IN WOODS LIKE I SHOULD. HE IS THE MOST NATURAL DOG IVE EVER OWNED. ALSO HE IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DOGS IVE EVER OWN NOT BAD TO LOOK AT. THANKS FOR LETTING ME SHARE THIS WITH YOU.

eat and poop

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ALLNITER DOUG CHEEK

ALWAYS GO BY THE RULES AND NEVER A PROBLEM

Same dog I posted on the faults post

1) Accurate,rarely misses.

2)Handles like a dream.Open the kennel and he jumps in the truck.Turn him loose and he goes huntin'.Hunts the woods out good,dont blow the country.When you are ready to go call him in.If he is within hearing he'll come.Dont need no leash.

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Aaron Allinger,proud member of the NAADP

two good

She will put a tree on hot track and usally be treed first. and you can hunt her with most any dog and not have a problem.

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blow the top out of it

a treedog AND has a VERY big mouth

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Justin Craft
http://www.angelfire.com/tn3/blkntancoondawgs

1) Born straight

2) Brains

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OLD TIMER

Hoke- very, very loud and dinstinctive mouth. Very solid and dependable. If he says its there you better shine a little longer cause its up there somewhere.

Digger- getting a bit long in the tooth, but has been in his day a top track dog. Cold, cold nose and able to move very bad tracks to a proper end.

Both are usually very hassle free hounds as far as minding, temprement, trashing, etc.... (notice I said "usually" LOL!!!)I guess they'd be more consistent in this regard if I hunted them as much as I used to before my son was born, but a man has to have his priorities straight!!!!

Hey RC

You know my mutts faults and attributes, if there are any?!

If I have to choose, I would say:

1) She Loves Me!
2) She Loves Me!

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As I said....

in the fault post my blue bitch is my best dog by default cause my other sure enuff sucks. Anyways, I'd have to brag (and knock on wood) about how accurate she has been in the short time I've had her. Second is the way she handles...like a dream, couldn't ask for her to be no better mannered whether it be in the woods, box, or pen.

Now my sucky dogs two best traits....
HMMMMMMM......
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WELL????????
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I guess I'd have to say....
????? OH I KNOW......I KNOW!!!!!!

1. He looks good standing on his doghouse
2. He sounds really good and loud on the nights I decide not to hunt.

my young male 1- is very accurate. 2- does not run no junk period, born that way thank God....my young female 1- very fast. 2- real hard tree dog.

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