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I just got a hold of 6 month old pup. He wants nothing to do with a dead coon and I showed him a live one today and he just hid. Any advice?

kill one and put it in the dog box with it overnight.... so it will realize it want hurt him.... then make sure you dont get it chewed up for a while

Don't show him anymore coon dead or alive for a couple more months.

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Michael Ghorley

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Originally posted by GA DAWG
Don't show him anymore coon dead or alive for a couple more months.

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I had a six month old pup out of the Original Hickory Nut Harry. I had a cooon in a six by six by six cage. Every day at feeding time I would turn him out and he would bay and carry on till I got through feeding up. That went on for a week. One day, he trotted to the pen and went BOO and trotted on off to check out the rest of the yard . I sicced him some and he did not care much , I got __t'n and threw him in the pen with the coon. The coon got sh__n and started in on the dog. The dog put his head in the corner and let the coon have at his ___ . I got ----tner and grabbed the pup and beat the collar off him. He got gone and did not come back for a week. He did not tree till he was 18 months old, normal for back in those days, but he was a pro at trailing twice as fast as the old dogs. When he did though, he was the coon hatingest dog I have ever had and the best and the most honest and the fastest. He was not going to waste time on a coon and lie about it, HE wanted to kill coons. Fact is as fact be. You can ruin a noaccount but hard to ruin a good one is my appinion.

Got a pup that in December would not look at a cage coon, in Jan we shot one out to the old dogs and he got in on the fight been coon crazy ever since and is now doing good. Bottom line is he was16 months til he would have anything to do with a coon. Not all start early and not all early starters finish. Let the dog grow up. Show him another in a couple months. Jmo

I have one here. I showed her a caged coon at 3 months old. She was running out and not scared of anything. She went crazy on that coon. At 8 months old now. She's running and treeing her own coon. All pups are different. I will not push them on a coon. They either will or they want. A month or 2 can make a huge difference in a pup.

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Michael Ghorley