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laying a dog up??

so...if my buddy will keep my dog for me a while, he will likely be laid up about 5 months...i am leaving to work out of state till the end of sept...unless i land a different job sometime before then....


he is a year old right now and i would call him well started....cut the lead and he will get in and get struck and locked down under a tree with a coon in it pretty much all the time...really happy with him...


how will being laid up effect him??? i know sometimes a short lay up works magic on some dogs....ive seen older dogs laid up a while and never miss a beat...just not sure what the effects may be for a youngun??

my buddy will likely keep him for me...but if he takes him hunting once or twice i will be pretty surprised...he is busy and he told me goin into this he dont have time to hunt 2 pups and i was on my own if i wanted a dog..i did the work on my own thus far and dont expect him to take him out....my guess is he will take him a few times while i am gone with him youngun...but cant count on it..when i get home it'll be kill season and i wanna hit the hunts hard...IF all goes well and he aint ruined or anything...


hopefully i am worrying over nothing and i can come home and tune him right back in pretty easy....he started super easy...all i had to do was take him to the woods...he knew what to do from there...real natural coon dog..

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I have gator problems down here where I hunt. You don't have to worry about game Wardens nor the political seasons that man puts on coons. It is a simple fact that if you want and like your pup, do dot hunt hin in between the lanes Of I -95 nor around alligaters. Plain and simple on that one. I try my best to get them started from the time they can load their own self up till the gaters get back out. I hope they learn alot and I hope to put a 100 coons in their mouth. But that is just me. When the gaters do come back out , I quit. I will agree it would be better to carry a young pup quickly on through the process but that is not an option for me. They lay up. Young and old alike. I don't see but it takes a night or two of chases in the salt marsh to take the fat off my trained dogs. Generrally , my pups that laid up must have had a while to think 'cause in my experience, in a couple of weeks they get to treeing. And one more time , I will say , the VERY LAST thing a pup needs to do is TREE. I am not trying to sell him so he does not have to BS a buyer.

I wouldn't worry about your pup if you are satisfied with his progress so far. But that is just me. I would say to ask your buddy to try to make special effort to try to take him to some sweet corn patches a few times this summer. But if he can't, don't worry too much about it. A dog has to go off and hunt, pass up trash, take whatever track is before him, learn to track , trail , very good and fast . When a dog that knows how to do that you or me might call him a COONDOG in a month or so. Ones that can't , I will never call a coondog because they are NOT a coondog, don't care how young nor how many barks they yap up a TREE. That is just me but I have learned my lesson.

mauser i dont think your dog will forget how to tree coons in 5 months. if hes a natural right now he will be a natural 5 months from now.

Thanx guys!


I sure hope it dont hurt him none...i really like him...i really couldnt ask for anything more from a 1 year old pup...i really couldnt...he is to the point now i can open the box and cut him loose and sit on the tailgate and wait for those dying locators and i will most likely go in and see a coon up the tree...

Started super easy...all i had to do was take him to the woods...i started him on his own..ive since hunted him with his mom and brother and even both of them at the same time a couple drops one nite...he does a nice job...gotta work with him on backing another dog or going and getting his own...ive realized if he isnt first on the tree he will be milling around if he was running that track...

I just took first at an rqe this march with his mom and granded her out...he had first and first on the first drop hunting with her and his brother! I was awful proud cause his mom is a real nice dog...


I will get home right at "prime time" for corn running...that is one great thing...i will have a good month or so of good corn field huntin..and i am sure my buddy will take him a few times....with him farming and having his own pup he just dont have the time and i know that...i will be super thankful if he keeps him for me while i am gone..

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