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RatDog
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Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Pennsylvania
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Any Advise ??

Buddy has a young (1 1/2) Old dog that's been doing really good at gettin treed and having the meat, but anytime she runs with other dogs, she acts really stupid as she wont go off on her own and get treed or she wont follow the others... she like just wont "take off "...I'm not sure what to tell him. He's switched her some to no avail...he wants nothing more to hunt her next spring in some hunts...Ya think its a faze or what ? Just keep huntin her with others ??? Dont think she's been ate up.

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rob thompson
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Re: Any Advise ??

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Buddy has a young (1 1/2) Old dog that's been doing really good at gettin treed and having the meat, but anytime she runs with other dogs, she acts really stupid as she wont go off on her own and get treed or she wont follow the others... she like just wont "take off "...I'm not sure what to tell him. He's switched her some to no avail...he wants nothing more to hunt her next spring in some hunts...Ya think its a faze or what ? Just keep huntin her with others ??? Dont think she's been ate up.

everybody says hunt em alone hunt em alone! This is a major reason i dont think starting a pup alone is a good idea. How many times have any of us hunted one dog casts? I would sayhunt her every night with other dogs walk her into the tree tie her back and fur the others. Im sure some body will say im stupid and hunting a dog alone is the only way to go. I a pup can learn tons from an older dog bet on that. All hunting a dog alone does is build confidence, it does not make them better or more independant. I usually don't even bother taking a pup alone until it trees ahead of the older dog or splits. And one of the pups I'm hunting now doesn't get hunted alone cause he is always by himself anyway.

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Donnie Stevens
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Hunting some dogs alone only makes them want to be with other dogs more. They're all wired different.

I had one that acted like you describe. She was doin good alone and first few times I took her with dogs she kinda hung around didn't do much of anything. She come out of it after awhile. Dead loner.

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RatDog
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thanks...its pretty obvious with her that she's going to be alone usually and we dont have the greatest coon pop, but if she'd just break off one way or the other and "hunt" i think she'd get sumpin going. It's just weird cuz she acts like she's afraid of the dark when other dogs are in the same woods ???

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toe cutter
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had one like her. I kenneled him next to the dogs I wanted to hunt him with and then he would at least go hunting hunt when i turn him with other dogs, but he would always go the opposite way.. but it did get him to start hunting when i turned him with other dogs. in the nite hunts or with dogs he did not know he would go his own way and be split treed every drop. if it was a friends dog the first couple nights he would be split every drop but slowly he would start packing with the other dog on a few coon. but only if we hunted together for a week or so.. his mother and his litter mates were the same way. I won more hunts with him than any other dog I have owned in 40 yrs.
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RLenhart
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Originally posted by Donnie Stevens
Hunting some dogs alone only makes them want to be with other dogs more. They're all wired different.

That's 100% right. They're not all wired the same and what works for one does not work for the next when it comes to stuff like that. You need to be able to read your own pup and figure out what they need allot of the time IMO.
I have a young Lone Pine female that just turned 2 in Sept. At 1 - 1 1/2 yr old she would not tree with another dog much at all, would not hold pressure even when she had 1st tree if another dog came in on her she'd bail out of there and go run another. To get her over the hump I hunted her by herself 90% of the time but then would take her out with a friend who had a real mellow easy going dog every once in a while until she started holding pressure with him. In time I got her up to where she'd hold pressure with my Hammer dog (who is a VERY loud intense tree dog).
I just put her in her 1st comp hunt Sat night. It was an ACHA hunt that I wasn't going to mind withdrawing from if it got to hot in the kitchen for her. I got lucky and drew out in a two dog cast with a big blue dog that trees hard but I know the dog and know that he minds his manners. She treed real well with that dog all night. She didn't win the cast but she did me proud all the same "she made no mistakes and the competition was pretty good".

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