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Posted by ksteppe10 on 01-09-2015 03:12 AM:

help with puppy

Hey guys I just got my first coonhound puppy hes 2mo and I just wanted to know some of the things I should and shouldn't do while hes a puppyand when should I start training him?

Posted by Terry Dye on 01-09-2015 03:49 AM:

Why not start now? You can make life much easier on yourself and your dog if you teach him to lead, heel and come on command. Also a good time to start putting him in the dogbox and get him used to riding. You dont have to make long trips, just short rides every chance you get. Also one of the most important things he needs to learn, especially if you live in town with neighbors, is what NO means when he starts barking at booger bears in the middle of the night. Just be patient and have fun with him but be firm with his lessons. Good luck!

Posted by CHEWBACH on 01-09-2015 03:58 AM:

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that's rite now is the time to start! make sure you get his shots and get ya some wormer for puppies. if you have the space start taking him or her on short walks in woods. you think what can a puppy learn. well ifs its your first you and the puppy can learn together. they learn a lot from 8 wks on. get thru brush over logs across small creeks. learn to follow and learn to come when you whistle. see things in woods look like booger man to them. they learn these things don't bother them. LOL good luck!

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Posted by ksteppe10 on 01-09-2015 01:02 PM:

Alright thanks guys. That was exactly what I was looking for! I'll start doing that, thanks again!

Posted by WV Hound on 01-09-2015 02:30 PM:

I agree with Terry. Leading and Loading in the box a big thing. Also work with commands like come here, no, or if your in town be quite also walks in the woods are helpful to get use to all the smells and sounds lol. good luck man enjoy your pup they are a blast when they are little.

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Posted by kardinalkennels on 01-09-2015 10:32 PM:

Terry Dye is spot on, and as are the other men exposure to everything, for me it is a must for a dog to cross water. Get him use to it, make him cross small creeks by 3 months old and deeper water as he gets older. It will be fun for the both of you in a about 4 more months or so. I can tolerate a fault or two in a good dog, but not a gut less dog that won't cross water or run to catch game.

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Posted by Bayemup34 on 01-10-2015 04:20 AM:

And make sure you teach him to read posted signs. He should learn to translate this as "run quietly from here on out"

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Posted by skeets on 01-10-2015 08:11 AM:

i started coon hunting this cur dog i got at 2 months old.i would take him with my old walker every time i went and let him learn to love the woods and feel at home in them.when he started treeing with my walker i started hunting the cur by hisself and by 12 months old he was treeing coons. main thing i did with that cur is i bonded with him and he tries hes best to please me.when i want him to come in i just whistle and he comes back,and if i want to hunt up or down a creek i just shine my light where i want him to hunt and he will go in that direction.you have to go thru a lot of nights were u dont get much sleep and wear out several pair of boots to get a coon dog.

Posted by ksteppe10 on 01-20-2015 02:30 AM:

Okay guys so I got another question, at what age should I start teaching him how to trail and hunt and what is the best way to do this?

Posted by Fisher13 on 01-20-2015 05:38 AM:

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Originally posted by ksteppe10
Okay guys so I got another question, at what age should I start teaching him how to trail and hunt and what is the best way to do this?

After your obedience lessons, keep them age appropriate and short, get coon hide and play with him with it. If he don't respond to it right away, find something that he does.
Maybe a hot dog or a treat. Once he understands this,introduce him to hiding the treat,or hotdog, then hide the treat with the coon hide. Once he starts finding both, remove the treat and give it to him after he finds the hide. Begin to make tracks through the yard and hiding the hide.
I also would be exposing him to the woods during the day time, just to have fun and explore.
Keep in mind when you introduce him to treeing, make sure he trees by scent not by sight. Also don't allow him to jump, encourage barking, but avoid any other extra excitement. If he shows to be more track oriented then you may decide to show some more praise. However with hounds today there is plenty of tree power and to much excitement leads to fighting and other bad habits. By this time he should know sit and down. Use these at the tree,but encourage speak and the barking.

Around this time I would begin to take him to the woods at night to practice the lessons. I then will talk him for walks near active coon feeders, exposing him to real tracks, and releasing real caged coon for him to track and tree.

Your obedience lessons establish a good ability to communicate. This communications allows you to develop your game of tracking and treeing. The game of tracking and treeing develops into real life hunting. Do baby steps and work with him every day. Revisit your obedience lessons regularly, also make plenty of time for playtime and just pure exercise, pups are like small children short attention spans, and lots of play.

Read all the dog training books you can, learn proper correction techniques. Avoid any trash breaking unless your positive he is trashing. Most new trainers worry about this to much. Find good hunting spots with thick coon, and he will rarely trash. Lastly find the best spots you can to hunt him in, can't train a coon dog with out coon. Your main overall goal is develop a strong prey drive for coon.
Teach him to love treeing coon, and he should get pretty good at it, over the next couple years. Stick with it be patient expect the world out of him, just not over night. He will struggle transition from the drag to real live coon, but just be patient and keep him in the woods.

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