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Laid back or Hyper?

When I was young I thought hyper hunting dogs would be best...since then along the way I saw that for me the laid back and calm dog seems to be smarter and a better hunting dog...they seem to have more grit about them...

I have had quite a few middle of the road dogs (not very hyper) that were pretty good dogs...

When I talk about calm and laid back some of these dogs appear to be calm but they can be intense...

I had one that practically didn’t come out of his dog house and he came out to eat but just laid around mostly and he wasn’t a year old...in the woods he was a machine...his dam was about as good as him but she was middle of the road...

Who else have had or have these type of dogs and did you notice a difference?

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My dog most nights is as wild of a hunting dog as anything I’ve seen. But you do not know he is even at the house unless i walk out there with my light on at dark. Some days he will lay on top of his dog house soaking up the sun, other than that he’s laying in his dog house. But turn him loose, and he acts like he’s running from his own tail. Zig zags, straight lines, you name it he does it.

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Best dog IV ever had very seldom took the slack out of the chain and hardly ever made a sound at home.

Bug eyed, crap stompers are generally just as stupid in the woods as they are in the kennel. Might tree a bunch of coons, but I doubt it. Same kind that strike out of the box and come up treed a mile in. Score card dog some jack wad wins a bunch of money with. Pitiful. I can’t abide a dog or person with poor manners. Life is too short to deal with either one.

Calm vs. Hyper

Dogs that are calm, layback around the house are usually of higher intelligence but they can be dead heads that nothing will excite too. I want a dog to explode with desire and put every fiber of their body and mind into catching the game once they smell it. I wasted a lot of the last 50 years training dogs of popular bloodlines that had natural ability, but didn't have a high enough level of intelligence to ever advance to the level of performance that I was looking for.
Some dogs become hyper and pen crazy from being kenneled next to hyper pen crazy dogs and from not being hunted and handled enough.

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Originally posted by Sfox91
My dog most nights is as wild of a hunting dog as anything I’ve seen. But you do not know he is even at the house unless i walk out there with my light on at dark. Some days he will lay on top of his dog house soaking up the sun, other than that he’s laying in his dog house. But turn him loose, and he acts like he’s running from his own tail. Zig zags, straight lines, you name it he does it.

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