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Won’t hunt in company

Female walker who was born here. Tried to hunt her with her dad one night when she was 6 months old and she wouldn’t do anything. She has been trained on cage coons and had been hunted alone since then. She leaves like one should, keeps her mouth tight and gets treed. She’s 14 months now and I Took her out with my buddy’s dog (littermate male) and she won’t hunt. Thought it odd so I cut her with her dad last night and same thing. Worse was I called my male off the tree and got 200 yards away and she came through and trees there. Never had one quirky like this. How do I get her to get off and go get hers if she don’t want none of theirs is what I’m asking?

I had a female once, best dog I ever owned.... if you hunted her by herself, or with other female dogs she knew.

If you hunted her with strange dogs, or any male dogs... she would take off like she was going hunting, make it about 200 yards, curl up and lay down then not move like she wanted to go to sleep.

By herself, just a jam up coon dog. ALWAYS treed coon with her, worked old tracks as they came, burned hot tracks, hit lay ups- just didn't matter. Always came treed and always had the meat.

Now my situation was different than yours as I bought her when she was like four years old and never knew how, or when, she became like that. I had always assumed a male dog chewed her up at a tree when she was young- but that was just a guess. I sold her when I moved years ago. To my knowledge she never came out of that, but lived a long life as a good coon dog.

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I have had a couple quirky dogs. If she comes out of that problem it may bring on other annoying problems. For instance aggression. Best of luck to you. I Have always culled them sooner or later. Just couldn't live with the issues.

I have one now that till she was two years old she would not leave your side when hunting with strange dogs. By herself or with my old dog she was a coon treeing machine. Lost a good friend over his mouth because of it. She’s six now and will hunt with anything. Just be patient.

Can you pen her with another dog that can be hunted with her? If you do I would pen them together for a few weeks and then hunt them together and see what happens...I would also encourage her to tree with said dog if needed...

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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...

I’d still call her a started hound with potential. She hasn’t treed every track shes started but she won’t commit unless she’s sure. She’s never actually tasted coon fur. She’s a true female and is a bit possessive over me. I’m a believer in a dog needs to do it alone first and foremost and I’m very patient usually but I’m goin to clean coon off bear baits in Maine oct 1st and kinda need her to be a lot more settled in her own style. I’m not sure if it’s jealousy or just lack of confidence in new situations. On a side note... this has been my line for the last 15 years and the females have always had a “quirk” to em.

I have a 4 year old blue tick female that doesn't want to hunt with strange dogs. She does great with my other dogs, my buddy's dogs and especially by herself. She got two first place wins before she was 2 then wouldn't go hunting. I have no idea what happened. I went to 19 hunts with her hanging around. got scratched once. She would stay just out of sight. Then in March this year I went to a 2 night hunt and won first both nights. Then covid hit. Saturday she went hunting and got beat by 25 points. But maybe she's getting better.

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Quirky dogs

I have one that’s a little bit. She will go hunting by herself. She will leave with other hounds and generally hunt with them and if she in on the first strike will go all the way and tree with them . If she don’t strike it first she won’t honor the track or tree with them even if they finish with a coon . I’ve seen her come in to a tree when we were shining the coon but roll on buy and not tree with the others. Independence or jealousy?

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Wayne O