Registered: Mar 2014
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 133

I am getting a pup in July that I plan to raise and train it to sell. I would like to keep a journel and video of the dog as he progresses. Does anyone else do this? What is the best way and how would I go about doing it. I not sure if there is web site that is desined for this. Any help would be appricated.

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Registered: Mar 2013
Location: Liberty, KY 42539
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I have kept notes on my female this past winter so I could get a better understanding of her accuracy while the leaves were off. I think it is something everyone should do if they think they might sell their dog some day. I don't care much for guess work and this way you can get a real idea on the accuracy question. I made a spread sheet with headings of "Coon Seen", "Circle Tree" and Slick Tree. I then have divided the "Coon Seen" column by the other two to get a percentage of her accuracy. I would also look at her accuracy by considering half of the circle trees had a coon just to see what she could be.

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Registered: Mar 2014
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 133

I was looking for something online that I could post progress, pictures, and video. That way if there is a person who interested in the dog they could go to a page with all the documentation, pictures, and videos.

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Registered: Feb 2005
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Create ur own website. That way U could host various media on ur dog.

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Registered: Mar 2014
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 133

Yea that is what I thought I might have to do. Is there anyone who has a website like this that I could go to and look at and get some ideas?

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Registered: Jan 2012
Location: standish michigan
Posts: 128

heck i thought i was the only one who did it. i found a journal at a gas station with a racoon on it and started writing in it after every time i got home from hunting my bluedog and after compititions

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: tn
Posts: 667

I have a hunting logbook that was printed in the seventies, I took a page from it to Staples and had them make copies and bind it. Have a separate book for each dog I hunt. It is pretty detailed with things like moon phase, wind direction and speed, time on track, you get the idea.

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Registered: Feb 2005
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I don't keep a journal per/say on hunting of the dogs,but I do keep one on each dog I condition.
It let's me measure the dogs progress from start to finish. Weight /muscle tone/metabolism /heartbeat/stress tolerances etc.....

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Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Pa
Posts: 1495

I'll have to show you some of my old records. I use to keep track of every dog I was running , did it for years . I just used a tablet , I kept track of dog /dogs hunted , moon phase , activity period, time hunted, tracks, trees, coon seen, weather,temp,where hunted, date, junk seen, and a comment section. In that I would put when I treed the first litter of the year or when I saw the first fawn, stuff like that. Patterns always emerge. Kind of got away from it now, still have some of those old notebooks somewhere.

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