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Balancing quality time between dogs

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I am someone that is very passionate about coon hunting and rabbit hunting and I try to do both as much as I can. I've been married for two years and I work a full time job that has second shift hours, 3-11 pm.

I wonder if I am cheating both my beagles and my coonhound? Either I hunt the coonhound more and the beagles suffer on field time or I sacrifice the coonhound and take the beagles out. I struggle with giving them both quality time and taking care of my life's priorities and getting sleep. I could have mediocre beagles and a coonhound or make one more of a priority while sacrificing the other. This is something that has bothered me for a while and I would appreciate some input on the situation.

The question I have for everyone is:
Can you balance different types of hunting with dogs (Coonhounds and beagles or bird dogs and foxhounds, etc) and give them the opportunity to make their full potential? Is this realistic? Has anyone been successful in a similar situation?

Austin Miller

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Originally posted by A.C Miller
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I am someone that is very passionate about coon hunting and rabbit hunting and I try to do both as much as I can. I've been married for two years and I work a full time job that has second shift hours, 3-11 pm.

I wonder if I am cheating both my beagles and my coonhound? Either I hunt the coonhound more and the beagles suffer on field time or I sacrifice the coonhound and take the beagles out. I struggle with giving them both quality time and taking care of my life's priorities and getting sleep. I could have mediocre beagles and a coonhound or make one more of a priority while sacrificing the other. This is something that has bothered me for a while and I would appreciate some input on the situation.

The question I have for everyone is:
Can you balance different types of hunting with dogs (Coonhounds and beagles or bird dogs and foxhounds, etc) and give them the opportunity to make their full potential? Is this realistic? Has anyone been successful in a similar situation?

Austin Miller

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I think we get too wrapped up in or hobbys and they become work whether it's rabbit or coon hunting it's supposed to be fun a release fro everyday stresses

Our coonhunting up here is slowed down or dead due to weather during most of our rabbit season or fox/coyote season. So it is do able to have running hounds & coondogs and do them both justice here but if the seasons over lap one or the other is probably going to suffer in order to have time for everything else.

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It depends on what you want, you can balance time between your coon hound and beagles. The question you have to answer for yourself is what do want. Top competitive dogs or average pleasure dogs.

The problem you're going to have is, if you spend all your free time hunting dogs, you probably won't be married long.

If you're hunting day and night, when are you going to spend quality time with your family?

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It's hard for me to hunt more than one coondog at a time, My young dog needs hunted, then my 4 yr old needs to go! I get into my hunting. To hard to stay out late and then get up early to run beagles to

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Mr. Miller you ask a good question about something most of us experience. Thats why at the end of the day most people say it comes down to the dog suiting you.

If you have varied interest then your dog may never reach its top form or potential. If it suits you and your happy when you take it to the woods thats fine and all that matters. A lot of people are in the same boat. Thing is there is a lot of pressure out there from others that think they know more about your situation than you do. They say you can't train one, they say you can't hunt one right, they say anyone can but a trained dog. The say you don't know how to breed one.
Who cares how you got the dog your respect and hunt. You got it, you own and care for it. If it meets your standards while balancing other things. That is all that matters.

When you understand your limits, as much as you might want to train a young dog, perhaps buying a finished hound might be in your best interest. If you can't spend the time raising a litter of pups and you want a pup then buying just one might be in your best interest.

Don't become a slave to your dogs. Keep dogs within your reason and enjoy them.

Like ringtail mentioned you have to balance family with all this other things you enjoy also.

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I'm in a similar issue except its only with my job. Anybody work a job on here with rotating shifts that are 12 hrs? Only work 16 days a month but half are nights. How do you keep a dog hunted up for competition? And the weather throw a kink in it all, last week a foot of snow with single digits temps, now its 50-70 and i'm working nights.

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Originally posted by buckmaster27012
I'm in a similar issue except its only with my job. Anybody work a job on here with rotating shifts that are 12 hrs? Only work 16 days a month but half are nights. How do you keep a dog hunted up for competition? And the weather throw a kink in it all, last week a foot of snow with single digits temps, now its 50-70 and i'm working nights.

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I hunt both, the beagles don't seem to need as much as the coon dog does. It really is different from dog to dog as to how much hunting they need. I used to work a 3 to 11 shift. Coonhunting wasn't a problem, the wife was already in bed. Go out hunt a couple of hours and come home. A couple of nights a week I stayed home and took the beagles in the morning.

The question you have to ask yourself is are the dogs really suffering from this or are you just so wrapped up in it you can't get enough of it?

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Originally posted by Carl Riley
I think we get too wrapped up in or hobbys and they become work whether it's rabbit or coon hunting it's supposed to be fun a release fro everyday stresses

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