Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Georgia
Posts: 167

Question for you!

You can email or PM the answer if you wish....

You know the story on Josie...

She is now smokin in the woods alone, but will not tree with another dog...

I have hunted her with our male and she will sit off the tree and tree...

I have hunted her with puppies and she will tree on the tree...

If she is with -ANY- other dog she will not tree with them...

I have taken her with Zena and she will usually get first and first but Z runs the tree bad...

When we get to the tree Josie will meet me and either go back to treeing sitting down or be way (i mean way) back off the tree sitting treed...

Z fell on her the other night, and she all but tore out...she got out of our sight (prolly 25') off the tree and treed....

She has been hunting a lot by herself and with the male and she looks great, but really has to trust a dog before treeing with it...

Do I need to hunt her with other dogs to get her over the fear, or do I need to only hunt her alone...

I have put her in a hunt and she treed first and split a couple of times but was milling around when we got there so I got - she won't be covered...

Can this EVER be fixed or do I just need to use her for Puppies?

I am not getting shed of her, even if she goes backwards from this.....

She has come a LONG way to here! I never thought she would be this good....

We set her up for prolly a year, and she got to see everyone go hunting and I guess she got lonely...:-)

She has really impressed me...She can get first and first on just about anything, and I love such a mouth on a female.

The first time out she treed a possum by herself, I didn't know whether to whip her or hug her...So I encouraged her up on the tree then shot the possum and whipped her with him...She didn't like that at all...
(hope this was right)

She has Never messed with Any other junk (so far)....
and it hasn't seemed to affect her treeing as long as she is alone...

Either she has a Super Memory or her experience as a youngan was a little more than I imagined it was...

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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Georgia & Michigan
Posts: 268

Hello --

I will email or pm you with a longer response later today, gotta get back outside now.

But, first of all, you do need to hunt her with other dogs but you need to be very selective of those other dogs for at least a few months, possibly several months.

She needs to be conditioned to the e-collar in the yard so that it can be used when necessary in the woods on various commands that will help overcome this situation. And this I would do first, while hunting her alone some along.

As far as the possum situation, given her problems, that's not what I would have done. Shooting game from the tree is reward time. In this situation she was encouraged on the tree, then in what was supposed to be reward time she was whipped. Try to remove contradictory variables from any potential learning situation. If she was treed and on the tree and all those things, you had two choices; praise her for staying treed, (and worry about the possum issue later if it truly becomes a problem) or just lead her away without making any big deal at all, positive or negative.

More later --

-- Vickie

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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 44

Where can I find more information on the book written by Mrs. Lamb?

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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Georgia & Michigan
Posts: 268

dm1 --

You can order it by credit card from 1-800-851-7507, or you can order it from me with money order or check. If you wish to order it from me, please email or pm me. It will be available thru a few websites as well with credit card soon. Here is a link, and thanks for your interest.

www.coondawgs.com/vbook


---Vickie

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