Registered: Nov 2011
Location: Texas
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I have to 10go month old male redtick.. ive only had him for a few weeks now and was told from the previous owner that hes barked at a couple coons in a cage but had never been in the woods. Ive brought him out for the fourth time last night and hes doing about what u expected from a young dog with no training. He would go out with the other dogs but shortly come back.. i walk him into the tree and tie him next to it shoot the coon down and let him watch the other dogs fight it. I came home last night after we killed one coon and tried playing with him with this dead coon . He actes terrified of it.. i finally got him mad enough that he would bite at it and he barked a few times but after a hour of dragging it through tge woods and making him fight with it i still felt discouraged. I mean can tell when a dog is just stupid but he seems to be smart.. just scared of the coon... any advise on where i should go from here.. ive trained quite a few pups but with the a dog this old and just starting out is new to me..

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10 months old really isnt old....


i'd personally put him up a month or 2...get him used to you..work on commands...stuff like that...


then go back to the drawing board...start training from scratch...


or, show him a caged coon now and see how he reacts on his own...if he doesnt come unglued bring an old dog out to show him how its done...then let them tree it...try to praise him and let him know he did good if he trees it etc....


hard to tell what he has ACTUALLY been through at that age...some moron could let a coon tear into him and now he truly is terrified of coon...maybe he just isnt ready for hunting...not uncommon at all...more dogs are ready at 1-1 1/2yrs than are ready earlier...

MAKING a youngun do anything is often counter productive...training a youngun is best done in short spurts and kept as fun as possible IMO...when im starting a youngun i watch them like a hawk..they look bored, loose interest, look tired, etc they go home...if its not fun for them, they may never learn to like it or become good at it....

if my dad drug me out in the freezing cold and made me sit there ALL day and not see a single living critter let alone shoot a deer when i was 5 i would NEVER EVER wanna go deer hunting ever again...wouldnt be fun..would be miserable...and i would never wanna do that....now that im older, i can sit there in the freezing cold hours before sun up until its dark out...never move..never shoot a deer...and still consider it fun...ive matured...dad got me into hunting when i was young by taking me on short fun hunts..didnt let me get bored or miserable etc......i look at dogs like i look at kids/people....



good luck!

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Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Commonwealth of VA
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Give him a couple months. You have a pup that has probably been fooled with very little as a youngster and is mentally immature. Several yrs ago I took in a 3yr old gyp that knew absolutely nothing....never been hunted....would not bark at a caged coon...hang up...nothing. HUNTED her regular for a couple months and she turned into a solid dog I enjoyed for many yrs. She ate my feed the rest of her life and died of old age at my place. On a side note I have seen pups rip the wire off of live traps and blow the top out on a hang up coon only to prove themselves worthless in the woods. Give him a little time.

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I'm with Mauser and Old Dominion. I had a coon in a cage and a originalHickory Nut Harry 7 month old pup Iwould let out and bay that coon while I was feedung up. That went on for a week. Then he got to running up to the cage and blow at the coon and take off around the yard. I was a moron and stuck him in the cage with the coon.The coon tore his ass up while the pup put his head in the corner and let the coon do it , so I got himout and beat the collar off him and he took off for a week before I ever saw him again. By then I had let the coon go. By hunting season he was 14 months old and he was the coon hatingest SOB I have ever owned. Just Lucky for me but sometimes thing just workout right for a moran. Then about two years ago I sold a year and a half old pup doimg good for decent money but he was hound cur cross and I told the fellow to give him time to get toknow you. He did and just before the alligators went in he brought the dog back with a coon in a cage and said this dog is a fool . Sure enough the pup almost broke his neck trying to get out of sight of the coon. Well Lucky for me I had a younger hound pup not even treeing yet that lit into that roling cage and we traded. Well, I took that young dog hunting that very night, which that fellow had not got around to doing yet and I don't blame him as fool as that dog acted. He treed five times that very night and I shot out seven coons to him and every one he grabbed you could hear his skull or ribs crunch.I don't have a clue why that dog put on a chicken sht show on that rolling cage. The old fellow still likes the one he traded for so if he is happy then I am happy.

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