Registered: Jan 2009
Location: pana,ill
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what's the point of showin a caged coon to a dog/pup?

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Registered: May 2009
Location: Tonkawa Oklahoma
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It is mostly people getting in to big of hury to introduce there pup to a coon. There are probubly more pups getting scared and set back by it than it does good. I don't show them one till it is old enough that I want to release the coon and let it try to track and tree it.

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: s.c.
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Originally posted by Okie Dawg
It is mostly people getting in to big of hury to introduce there pup to a coon. There are probubly more pups getting scared and set back by it than it does good. I don't show them one till it is old enough that I want to release the coon and let it try to track and tree it.

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Registered: Jun 2010
Location: howell,michigan
Posts: 769

a caged coon should be used on a puppy not a dog that can tree his own coon. like they say a man has to be smarter than the dog , sometimes i wonder with these posts on here.

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: ILLINOIS
Posts: 599

I won't show a dog a coon in a trap or cage. I will how ever trap and shoot a coon, drag it and let a pup try and find it. I will trap and release then let a dog loose, without getting a look, to track and tree it.

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Registered: Mar 2009
Location: OKLA
Posts: 1132

I have a friend who is one of the best coon hunters I know; he always hunts a good dog, and he never buys one. I was at his house one summer, and he had a couple of pups running loose, like always. Any way one of those pups was treed down below the barn; we walked down there, and the pup was treed on a coon in a pen above ground, like a rabbit hutch. I asked if he showed the coon to the pup, and he said no. I use the coon for a barometer; when that pup starts showing interest in the coon he can't see or the squirrels around the place, I start hauling them. Every hound is a victim of his genetics and the guy hauling them, at the very best they can only rise a bit above their dna and what the hunter will expose them to. Tom

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