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The cull named Einstein

I wanted to tell y’all a story about a dog we’ll call Einstein. I had a local boy that was fairly young at the time, about 21-25 years old that had trained a few pups I know of that made decent dogs. He had one fairly young about 12 months old that he had supposedly tried training. I had talked to him on the phone a few times and he’d mention the dog and as time went on it seems like he was getting frustrated with him. I got to thinking about what generally happens is a bunch of broke rednecks come into this sport and think that they can afford hounsdmanship and figure out they can barely afford to feed a dog a $30 bag of feed a month. So when they get burnt out on a dog they can’t stand losing money so they pawn the dog off they know won’t make it off onto someone else so they don’t lose a whopping $400-$600. Thought of a way to break the cycle so I told him listen, if you get tired of fooling with him let me know and I’ll take him when bear season opens and if he can at least make a pack dog, run with 20 other dogs, bark and chase a bear around I may be able to get you your money back out of him which was $400 as a puppy. Depending on how good he is, I have honest guys that may pay you a little more. Well a couple more months went by and he wanted to talk dogs again and I asked if he was still hunting his pup. And in that long drawn out twang, nnooooooo I went and turned him loose on the side of the roooaaadddd. Well after the call I felt compelled to give the dog one more chance so I took my part time investigative skills to FaceSpace and found where the dog was found and some nice lady had chained him up and was feeding him. I messaged her and told her it was my buddies dog and sent her a picture I had stolen off his FaceSpace to show her and said I was coming to get him he’s out of town. Went and got him, fed him for a month and carried him to a bear hunter. They were running a smaller bear and caught 2 dogs off of it and he broke Einstein out of the box on a lead. He went ISANE smelling where that bear went and he cut him loose. 1.68 miles later, in waist deep water the dog showed treed and he sent in a 16 year old boy to get him. Had the bear on a limb single handed by himself, first one he had ever ran. Three years later the dog is the man’s #1 trail dog and I’ve personally seen him turn down $5,000 for him over the last couple years after he got more training. And I know the old man would have sent him at least $500-$1,000 on the spot for that hound. Point of this is if a dog shows heavy interest in a coon in a cage it might make a bear dog. If it hunts out good, not skiddish, has a decent mouth. Might make a bear dog. If it doesn’t recut off a tree it might make a bear dog. If it don’t then it may run hogs. May burn up a deer for a deer hunter. But don’t turn loose a dog on the side of the road or put him 6 feet. Just don’t lie about the dog and see what someone can do with it. Yeah some are too bad off and you do what’s necessary but some aren’t. Give them a chance not every dog was made to be a coon dog

Amen to that!

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Bill Harper
Washington, NC
252-944-5592

Enjoyed the story

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Philippians 2:9-11

I agree...

The best hog dogs I have had were out of coon and squirrel dogs…

Out of bear dogs I need to see coon dogs in the mix…i have my theories on why…

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Training dogs is not so much about quantity, it's more about timing, and the right situations...After that it's up to the dog....A hunting dog is born...