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I have a 14 month old black and tan that is just starting to tree a couple coon.The problem I'm having is that about 3/4 of his tracks are ending in holes .I havent tried to break him from it yet since he is just starting to tree.Most of the time I walk to him and pull him off the hole and leave the area.Sometimes he will leave the hole on his own .I believe it has been coon and not trash but can't say for sure.Is it possible that he is backtracking to all these holes?

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Registered: Jun 2007
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Where I hunt, holes usually mean possum. It stays kinda wet here and trees get blown sideways and pulls their roots up forming a hollow under the roots.

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Registered: Feb 2012
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My area holes are mostly trash as well. Not always but if you get a straight dog ya find out there is way less holes. If there old enough to hunt there old enough to train.

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Very well could be possum.Some of these track have been 4 or 500 yards I figured a possum would go up quicker .How far have y'all had possum run?

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My hounds are so bad they will swap over to a possum after 400-500 yards!

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Grab your shovels and go dig it up. You might be surprised what you find in a hole. Groundhog holes in my area will have coon rabbits grinners maybe a fox. Don't be surprised if you find more than one of the above in the same hole. And there are many tunnels off main one. OH YEA skunks!!! LoL! All part of training knowing what your dog is doing or chasing. Have done it. And this is my opinion.
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Registered: Aug 2018
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My dog's have treed 5 this year in holes so far. I know 2 were coon for sure. I seen 1 and the dog's dug up the other 1. Didn't have a shovel at the start of the year but I do know lol.

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About the first thing I do to a pup is hole break him, holes and trees have nothing in common. We have lots of dillars and its usually pretty easy to break them.

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About the first thing I do to a pup is hole break him, holes and trees have nothing in common. We have lots of dillars and its usually pretty easy to break them.

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My dogs have run possums a few hundred yards. They'll track one for a while, lose it and find it again and keep on tracking it and eventually, usually tree it or hole it. I've seen them run a possum back and forth across a road. The only thing I have against the dogs messing with possums is that many times they will catch it and then they get stink all over them. But they love it.

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Took him out last night and he ended up treeing under an old sh cabin on the first drop .I don't see anything but it could have easily been up in insolatin.Second drop he ran a track for over an hour and never left 3/4 mile .I finally caught him after I walked up on a bobcat figured that was what he was after.Anybody got any experience with cats .How do they run?

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Registered: Jan 2016
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when my young dog would trash on cats they would run long ways and tree them several times before finally putting them up for good, would work it like a coon until they lined him out

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Morrison TN
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Depends on where you are at.

Where I grew up holes were almost ALWAYS coons. Our coon denned in the ground but the whole mountain is hollow. I have shot coons out had them hit the ground once and bounce just go go into a hole and get away. Very, very, very common to tree coon in the ground where I am from. We hole break any dog they can tell the difference.

Only seen one possum in a hole in my life. Seen more skunks than possums.

Other places holes are possums or skunks and further south (here now I guess) holes are almost always dillers.

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