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tree dog question

I got this new pup ive been training the problem is he will tree multiple coon in the same tree how do I know witch one he ran and treed the top one or bottom one? the left one or right one ? now come kill season witch one do I shoot down I don't wanna shoot the wrong one and mess him up do coon carry different scents what should I do ?

well that sounds like a good problem good luck with that answer

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mr.nate i would say that all them coons are running together and when they see the leader go up the tree they will just follow him up the tree,so its a good chance your dog is running all the coons up the tree,i bet he will flat tree hard on them kind of coons. if your dog does that during kill season and you want to take one,i would say any of them up the tree would be fine to take.if kill season is in and you tree a sow and some kittens always take a kitten and leave the sow,them sows have proved they can make it thru the hard winter but the kitten usually dont have good of a chance as to make it.always leave plenty of coons to tree next timeand you should always have coons to hunt.

Doesn't matter which one you kill, as far as he knows there's only one up there anyway.

All coons smell the same, that's how a coondawg knows to run coon and not other game. Thus as long as they are in the same tree take the one you as a hunter seems to be the best one to take. I agree with the above statement. If the dog is treeing on a tree don't shoot a coon in another tree that's the only way I could see it messing a pup up.

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he ran the last coon up the tree... that coon ran the others up so be careful which one you shoot

all coon do not smell the same. just like people do not all smell the same. that is why a man tracking dog can track one person through a crowd of people and stay on that same persons track. dogs have a scent locking ability enabling them to do that.
smarter dogs hunting in thick coon hone their scent locking ability to do the same thing. its one reason why when you take a dog from some parts of Texas or north Georgia where the coon are fewer and bring that dog to Michigan and it hits in a corn field and several coon scatter out of the field the dog will most of the time stand on its head. the Texas/Georgia dog has never developed its scent locking ability because it never needed to.

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In my opinion all coons smell like coon so too his original question shooting a coon out of tree with multiple coons in it will not mess with a hound. I think to your point about a dog in a corn field with a bunch of coons its not a that the coon all smell different but its that the dog is disciplined to take a track and stay on that track, not being confused by multiple tracks. The dogs that jump tack to track cant figure it out because it all smells the same or so similar that they cant decide which to take. People smell different because we use different products like soap, perfume, cologne, laundry detergent that give us a distinct smell, so with all those variables its statistically improbable that two humans in the same area smell exactly alike. But thats just what I think. If my dog trees multiple coon in the same tree I wouldnt worry if the one coming down is the same one that laid the exact track my dog took to the tree.

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The coons are running together , it doesn't matter which one you shoot out. Remember a good sportsman only knocks out one coon.