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Originally posted by JiM
Then you haven't had the pleasure of watching a proven coondog trainer in action.
I will agree with you Jim!
The thing is the dog's will tell you they are wrong once you start gettin after them by the way they come on the tree. Can you hear the difference is the thing. To me that's the dog's way of sayin,"Screw it,I give up so come & get me". Or like i see it,"Come & enforce what I already know".
There was a time when I dealt with the empty plague a lil but it is a thing of the past. 90% accuracy is unexceptable but that's my personal want's & need's. This scalin up the mountain side diggin in & sweatin like a banchy "HOPIN" they have a coon don't fly in these part's.
Yes,some can be over amped thus encouraged to just grab a tree when it get's tough by excessive pettin & cage coonin,seen it.
I would put genetic's rite up there more so though. More are born with that trait than are trained to be that way by an unsuspecting, still gatherin knowledge coonhound enthusiast.
Sure even the best of the best "MIGHT" miss once in a while but 1 outa 10 time's is to much. It is what you expect & make's your goal's full filled. Some can or will tolerate an empty a night & some won't tolerate one in two month's.
Once upon a time way back in the oldin day's I had the misfortune of gettin an adult dog from a chap to attempt to straighten out for him. It didn't matter what I did to that dog that we affectionately called "Loud Cloud" he would still go twenty yards & load up again fully knowin that the long haired dude was comin to give him a hair cut,"AGAIN".
Make a long story short he left the same way he came. I had absolutely no impact on his over zelous desire to unload on every tree in the wood's & I promise you I tried everything I could except what I would have liked to have done. Couldn't get permission from the owner to do that unfortunately so it was what it was while no longer bein my headache.
You can improve accuracy to a degree but if the blood flowin in it's vein's is tellin it to keep on keepin it on you have a challenge on your hand's that will probably keep showin up for the life of the dog.
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01-24-2010 06:49 PM
i think if you push the right buttons, most will improve..they may get better with age. when they calm down a little..
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