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So what's the truth?

Using the walker breed for an example.

Are pups from any combination of mother and father and bloodlines just as good as the next?

Say there is 1500 pups born every year how many will make it? Honestly how much does human error play in to a pup. It turning out? Out of 1500 pups if 200 make decent Coon dogs is that good? The ones that do make it is it because of the bloodline or because they had a owner that actually gave them a chance?

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Making it

With the access to studs and information today at the click of a button, I believe a lot of the pups being produced has blood good enough to get a coon treed. Now whether or not they hunt or tree the coon in a style that your looking for is a different story. I'm not saying every puppy will make a coon treer. But you've heard of pups treeing a coon the first time taken to the woods. That's bred into it. And more than likely that owner will put more time into a pup like that. On the other hand you take a pup that just goes with dogs for awhile, eventually opens on some tracks, at the tree..etc. And that pup more than likely isn't going to get the exposure, hunting time, as the early starter. What I'm trying to say is that I believe blood has a lot to do with it. But without giving a pup woods time it will never reach its potential. Regardless of blood. Most of us try the best we can but,myself included, don't put enough boot leather behind these pups. We expect them to know it all from the start because of their "blood". You see a top dog, good chance theirs a lot of long nights and long walks in that dogs past. Boot leather and understanding what a pup needs is just as valuable as what blood is pumping through its veins, without it, you just end up with a dog out back. Which sadly, happens a lot.

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