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With all this talk about people shooting bunches of coons out, reckon there is something we as hunters that live where coons are thin could carry with us as a reward for our dog when he trees a coon instaed of knocking it out to them?
Ever watch those drug dogs work? When they make a legitimate hit the handler throws them a chew toy and they love it.
I know petting and praising is good but reckon that always satisfies the dog? If it does, then why ever shoot another coon out?
Any ideas on what would be good to reward a dog with in addition to praise?

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i know a guy who takes a coon hide and has it soed to a milk jug and takes a cap gun shoots once an then throws it in air. works good for him

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I usually just pet mine up and tell them good job and the coon is dead. Mine would just as much be sent in to find another as have a taste. I have a 6 year old female here that has treed well over 600 coon lifetime for me and I'd say she's lucky if she has had at most a taste of 50 of the 600 coon she has treed. She's doing just fine!

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i dont know what caused thin coon?distemper parvo to many
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Out of season I just pet mine up and give them a dog biscuit. Works for me.

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I usually just pet mine up and tell them good job and the coon is dead. Mine would just as much be sent in to find another as have a taste. I have a 6 year old female here that has treed well over 600 coon lifetime for me and I'd say she's lucky if she has had at most a taste of 50 of the 600 coon she has treed. She's doing just fine!

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I know a guy that used to give his dogs cheese as a reward, and his dogs got way more excited over that cheese than mine ever did over a dead coon. He claimed that they got addicted to the cheese and would really work their tail off to get a piece of cheese. Good luck.

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my dog could care less if he chews on a coon, when i knock one out all he does is walk away from it. dogs dont need that many coon

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Had a walker gyp once saw her last dead coon at maybe 20 months. Hunted her about 7 years after that and she just got better and better. That's why we call them coon dogs.

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Won't own one I got to feed coon to keep them right

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I just pet my dogs up real good and turn them back out somewhere else. Works well for me!

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I usually just pet mine up and tell them good job and the coon is dead. Mine would just as much be sent in to find another as have a taste. I have a 6 year old female here that has treed well over 600 coon lifetime for me and I'd say she's lucky if she has had at most a taste of 50 of the 600 coon she has treed. She's doing just fine!

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my dog could care less if he chews on a coon, when i knock one out all he does is walk away from it. dogs dont need that many coon

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With all this talk about people shooting bunches of coons out, reckon there is something we as hunters that live where coons are thin could carry with us as a reward for our dog when he trees a coon instaed of knocking it out to them?
Ever watch those drug dogs work? When they make a legitimate hit the handler throws them a chew toy and they love it.
I know petting and praising is good but reckon that always satisfies the dog? If it does, then why ever shoot another coon out?
Any ideas on what would be good to reward a dog with in addition to praise?

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My thinking on this subject has changed through the years, the old school guys oftentimes still think they will ruin their dogs if they dont feed them coon and i used to think that way to. I have a couple dogs now that i believe would run and tree coon for the rest of their lives even if they never saw another coon. When i was a kid the neighbor had an old airdale dog that chased cars day in and day out for 10 years and i never saw him catch a single one.
What i do think you need to provide for the dog is a contrast that he can understand between a good job and a slick tree. Weather its a pat on the head as opposed to a kick in the rear or any other way that you can communicate to the dog that you are either happy with what he has done or dissapointed with what he has done. Remember to that all dogs need something different and the key to sucess is figureing out what works best for each dog.

To answer your question more specifically, No nothing means more to them than your praise.Mine will walk away from their feed dish for some pettin.

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By what you said with the K9 police dog example, they regularly use training exercises with "the real thing" and regularly use them in the force with "the real thing", so I'm not quite sure what you are getting at.

I believe most people including myself answered your question, and that was that many of us still shoot out coon to finished hounds, however, at a dramatically less rate than many others and it has had no adverse effects on our dogs.

If you re-read your post, it asks if shooting a coon out satisfies a dog enough, why ever shoot another out. Several have answered this by saying that they HAVE NOT completely stopped shooting coon out all together, but have done it a much lesser rate without adverse effects.

Maybe you should re word your question to, "why ever shoot a coon out to a hound?" And you may gt the answer you are looking for!

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My thinking on this subject has changed through the years, the old school guys oftentimes still think they will ruin their dogs if they dont feed them coon and i used to think that way to. I have a couple dogs now that i believe would run and tree coon for the rest of their lives even if they never saw another coon. When i was a kid the neighbor had an old airdale dog that chased cars day in and day out for 10 years and i never saw him catch a single one.
What i do think you need to provide for the dog is a contrast that he can understand between a good job and a slick tree. Weather its a pat on the head as opposed to a kick in the rear or any other way that you can communicate to the dog that you are either happy with what he has done or dissapointed with what he has done. Remember to that all dogs need something different and the key to sucess is figureing out what works best for each dog.

To answer your question more specifically, No nothing means more to them than your praise.Mine will walk away from their feed dish for some pettin.

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oddly enough, it seems most folks will say their dog dont need a coon when we are hunting their spots, but they sure could use one when we hunt mine. lol

I have always felt that the .22 was a valuable training tool when used correctly. Many young hounds can be improved by knowing when to use it and when to leave it in the truck. imo

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no , im not going to stop knocking coon out. better

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