The Guide
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Here's a story of how my current litter came about and why I posted this. I got a coonhound when I was a freshman in high school, I'm now a senior in college, this hound has been with me from the start, he was the first hound I ever laid eyes on and what got me into hunting coonhounds, He's a beautiful purebred walker that has put up tons of coon for me, and a handful of slick trees each year, but most all of the time its a coon. To me, he's one of the best I've hunted, and even done very well and even beat hounds that have sold for thousands, while out hunting for fun with friends that do hunt comp. seriously. And he'll die under my ownership, becuase I want him as my dog forever. 3 years ago I decided I wanted some pups out of him before he got too old and died or ran over, because you never know when they're going to go. He's still alive and I hope he'll be around for along time, but I wanted a pup of his to train with him. I also wanted his pups to be papered, I went on the hunt for a female coonhound that would be a perfect match. I figured it would take a while since I wanted to train a female from a pup into what I wanted in a coonhound. since he was just a hound that was given to me from a friend of a friend that pleasure hunted, and his parents were just unpapered pleasure dogs, I single registered him, which was fun because he has to tree a coon for the master of hounds, and he did in about 5 minutes and that was a fun night. anyways, it took a while to schedule it etc. and then i had him DNA profiled, and a batch of semen collected. I put him in a handful of UKC night hunts and got a 3rd place trophy one night, after that I really didn't do any more night hunts since all I wanted to do was see him place once to know he could do it. All this took years to do. training him only took till he was 7 months, but all the rest took years. So I found a female in Indiana that was very good looking, alot of black, which I liked because my dog has a decent amount of black, plus she had some good blood and was out of some good coondogs. So I got her, 9 hour drive and $300 later I had her in the truck heading back home, and then I trained her, that took three years, now she's a coondog and so this year I finally bred them. Ok so thats 6 years, and many of thousands of dollars later on gas because I live 45 min from my hunting spot and its $25 minimum on gas round trip, back when I used to hunt 5 nights a week, tracking GPS, Waders, Time, vet bills, registration fees, the list is endless, etc. and now this litter isn't even selling for $75 dollars? I'm not in it for money, becuase even at $400 a piece I still wouldn't even come close to making anything, but still, all that and 6 years later, and all that work and I mean work, and they aren't even going for $75. I'm really surprised. believe me I'm not posting this to sell my pups, I could care less about $75 bucks right now. I just can't believe that it was so easy to sell a litter of unregistered purebred labs for $400 a crack, and these are so much less. I know its taboo to talk about wanting money out of hounds, and people might think I want money when I say this, but it is rediculous for hounds to sell this cheap. maybe I'm nuts becuase I've not been in the game for a long time, but from a common sense standpoint I think its crazy, ever since I got into coonhunting. At that price any wackjob off the street with 75 bucks can walk off with my pride and joy that took 6 years to produce, its almost scary to think that. I seriously don't think I'll have any more litters, I'll just have to collect semen, and breed when I absolutly have to have a pup out of this dog.
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10-06-2008 01:20 AM
