There seems to be a lot of ways you can start pups hunting lions. Get you some Grawes scent and start running drags for em. Keep them short and fresh at first and especially fun for the dogs. Reward them with praise when they are doing something good i.e. treeing at the correct tree and trailing. When they start getting the hang of what you want them to do make the drags increasingly longer and use less scent. Mike leonard has a great write up on the biggamehoundsmen.com forum its a great read. Maybe hang a scented toy or hide in the tree, something for them to look at. Then, get em on game! Hope this helps some.
soak coons with cat scent and let the dogs mess with them in a cage and let the coon out and have the dogs follow. You can also use them infamous barn cougars.
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If your are starting out you have a few options, you can do the training as mentioned above (either way works and its good to mix it up), I did this and I feel your dogs bond better to you and if you stick with it you will make it in this sport, you can send them to some one who will do the training and that can be hit or miss and still costs quite a bit and the results may not be the way you want or may. The other method is to find a pup trainer usually an older dog that is near retirement and can vary in price from free to a couple hundred dollars (this is probably the best way as you can hunt with this dog and if it is the style you want go for it) and have your pups learn from the pup trainer. Dogs learn more from other dogs than they do from me. Also a trained dog will tattle on an untrained dog when it runs trash.
quote:Originally posted by Bticked There seems to be a lot of ways you can start pups hunting lions. Get you some Grawes scent and start running drags for em. Keep them short and fresh at first and especially fun for the dogs. Reward them with praise when they are doing something good i.e. treeing at the correct tree and trailing. When they start getting the hang of what you want them to do make the drags increasingly longer and use less scent. Mike leonard has a great write up on the biggamehoundsmen.com forum its a great read. Maybe hang a scented toy or hide in the tree, something for them to look at. Then, get em on game! Hope this helps some.
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if you have a broke dog, (I mean broke not semi broke) and you are hunting and the untrained dog takes off balls to the wall after a track and the broke dog won't even take another look at it you can pretty much know its running something that the broke dog has been broken off.
06-03-2010 09:45 PM
