StrawberryMt
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quote: Originally posted by Joey
I'm not saying that it isn't a coondog. Obviously a coondog can tree a coon by its self but there is a lot of stuff that a dog can do between being turned loose and sitting under a coon. Those are the things that separate a coondog form just a dog that can tree a coon. If you don't know the difference then I cant explain it to you.
I feel I am pretty versed on the difference,and I think a coondog CAN be a "coondog" even by himself.To me there is absolutely no difference.We are out to tree raccoons.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.I am sure you have heard that one.Well so is "a coondog".A few examples....An old man with crippled up knees likes to turn "Jed" loose in a two acre patch, have him a cup of coffee and if jed don't find a coon there he comes in and gets in the front seat and heads to the next patch.Meanwhile,Joe competition hunter would stomp jeds guts in for not looking for the next patch of timber.Jed had treed 150 coon for the old man but is from a cross that is not known for going deep.The old man and his other coffee drinking buddys sure think, cause jed don't tree unless he has a coon,that jed is a sure nuff coondog.
Now Joe competition hunter has his stemwinder that likes to be by himself,and "will go as far as he needs to" to find a coon.Dump stemwinder with a cast or alone and watch him peel away from those other babbling idiots before they even hit the timber.The other dogs tree slick 100 yards in the timber.As the cast is walking away from the slick Joe says,"listen!"."Strike and tree stemwinder!" the others are leash locked,gotta walk 3/4 of a mile down the creek.Stemwinder has ricky looking down.Old man with jed couldn't have walked that first 1/4 mile,besides jed wouldn't have gone that deep without being struck in the first place.
Both are COONDOGS,different types,but both do what their owners want them to do,show me the Cooony.Different strokes.
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