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Question about training.

got a female 1 1/2 years old. she started off pretty good. just ran her with an old dog. she got to where she would open on track and tree before she was a year old so i started huntin her by herself. treed a few easy ones by herself then, fairly short tracks. then she started treein em without running any kind of track at all. sometimes she would have the coon sometimes not. i got to watchin her in the woods and she is just runnin around checkin trees. slick treed 3 times last night and never opened on a track just found a tree and treed her but off. what should i do to correct this? any of you veterans got any ideas on what caused this or what i should do next. thanks for any advice.

One of two things should work here. First, I would release a couple caged coons for her. If she runs the track and trees, put her back in the woods by herself. If this doesn't work, take her back out with your broke dog for a few hunts. Mix it up a little, hunt her alone one night and with company the next until she starts running trail again.

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thanks for takin the time to reply buddy. i will try it.

Hopefully to many coons knocked to one will cause this,sometimes it's in there's genes and they have so much tree and are wound so tight they can't help it and in turn will never make anything other than a slick treeing idiot! My suggestion is take a dead coon run you a track for her tap a couple trees and keep going and then end the trackwoth good scent on a tree ! The advantage to this is you know exactly where the track went and you can see exactly what she is doing rite and what she is doing wrong and try to correct it !!! The big question to answer is was her problem man made or is it genetics!! Man made you have some hope genetics cull and start over !! They don't all make it that's just the cold hard truth! Jmo feel free to call if I can help with anything 571-233-5819

Here's a good thread on the subject:

http://forums.ukcdogs.com/showthrea...mp;pagenumber=1

part of the reason she is doing this is because the easy coon are gone. once the leaves are gone coon don't climb like house cats anymore. and with the frost and the way the coon move during this time of yr it is not in a young dogs favor. even a seasoned dog will check trees more then hunt the ground this time of yr. coon are up and down trees more then any other time. they aint in the corn ,they aint in the beans they screw off in the timber eating acorns and such. now is the time for hunting the big dogs. a seasoned older dog has a more mature nose and brain along with learned track sense to tell if a track goes up a tree or down. alot of youngs dogs that were showing promise and some good work just fall apart this time of yr. they are just in over thier head.
i would hunt her hard during the coon rut when she is more apt to get tracks to run. send her off the slicks to try and do the math over and get it right. picking the right nights and weather is just as important in training and hunting a young dog as any other part of.

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