Am I the only one that is seeing a trend of people bringing dogs to the hunts that are no where close to being ready? I normally only have one dog at a time and the one I have been hunting has been a grand for many years. So I haven't been hunting the local UKC hunts. I've started a new one and what I'm seeing is pitiful. They want stayed treed and they start tracks only to come back. They quit there tracks to cover other dogs its just pitiful. The dog I'm hunting has been in 7 UKC hunts and she has 6 first places and one was dead. She is a decent dog and I like her but she is a far cry from a coon dog at this time in her life. I have seen a few that where nice dogs but only a few.
I'm not saying that these dogs aren't going to make a coondog I'm just saying they aren't ready for the hunts yet. They need more work put in on them.
Ive been in some casts thats just like what your talikng about.Most of the casts that im in you can tell the 2 dogs itll come down to at the end after the first drop.
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hows it going joey? i see what your sayin.ive been back two months and been in 3 hunts.two of those hunts had two dogs in each cast get scratched for non hunting.the third cast you were at it in garner.my dog got snake bit,i scratched one for non hunting,another kept mounting the gyps and the dog that won our cast got minused for coming in twice.
quote:Originally posted by niterage727 hows it going joey? i see what your sayin.ive been back two months and been in 3 hunts.two of those hunts had two dogs in each cast get scratched for non hunting.the third cast you were at it in garner.my dog got snake bit,i scratched one for non hunting,another kept mounting the gyps and the dog that won our cast got minused for coming in twice.
The one you warned me to watch out for wouldn't hunt. It had to be walked over a track and quit two of those and came back. It made one tree and we couldnt find a coon.
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The quality is much higher around here locally than Wat I seen at the major hunts around here.
Purina dogs........
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quote:Originally posted by Dwils The quality is much higher around here locally than Wat I seen at the major hunts around here.
Purina dogs........
I'm sure it varies from place to place but around here its bad at the moment. I also know that the tough ones don't hunt UKC very long because it doesn't take long to finish them.
I say around here but three of her wins have come from a different state. like was said before I usually know by the first tree what if any dogs I have to worry about.
07-02-2011 07:07 PM
