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Alright lets get some discussion going.......What are some different Ways/Things you look for when picking a pup? Lets hear them crazy or not......Here are some things I've seen or Heard:

1)For instance I was always told to look at the knowledge knot on a pups head.
2) Count the whisker hairs on the side of their face LOL.
3) Had guy tell me once to never pick a pup unless it had a thick blaze running up its snout up between its eyes. (first time i had every heard that one)

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dont pick one with pink pads on its feet? i think they mean pick one with black colored pads..

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Yeah, Guess they mean at that age you can't tell, so just pick one with four feet......LOL

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Always pick up its tail and check for an O under it. This works never had a good dog of any kind that didn't have one.

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I was told that that tells ya where their from Ohio or Oklahoma.....HAHA

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Or the Roof of its mouth should b black !

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When you get a pup.You got two things a if and a maybe.If it lives maybe it will make something.We all know they all don't
make the cut.

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Or the Roof of its mouth should b black !

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Do you think any of these ways betters your chances of picking that stand out pup?

Thats true they all can't make the cut.

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I have been coon hunting for over 40 years.Seen the best bred
pups not make it and i have seen the pr dogs make as good a dog as you would want.There is no way to tell witch ones will and witch ones won't make it.

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I have been coon hunting for over 40 years.Seen the best bred
pups not make it and i have seen the pr dogs make as good a dog as you would want.There is no way to tell witch ones will and witch ones won't make it.

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That you can't.....but you can give them the chance.

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Shut your eyes a grab one.

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Old man told me one time the pup with the biggest turd cutter would make the best dog

I usaully just try to pick the friendliest most outgoing pup there is...

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I always looked for the strongest pup of the litter...
And i did this by picking up the pup upside down by the tail and seeing what pup could left it's head the highest or did the most wiggling from that position

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I usually just look at the pedigree. Lol

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Pick your pup up on their 49th day, it's said the pup is in a psychological window where they handle the transition to new owner better.

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IF I knew how to pick the best pup out of a litter or the one that would make the best coondog I'd have the coonhunting world at my mercy, I could live like a king LOL

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a black toe nail lol

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Black toe nails
Black in roof of mouth
Dark eyes

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Take your favorite 2 pups out on the 4lane highway and turn them loose, the one that gets hit would have been the good one and shoot the other, the worthless one never get hit!!

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Sell them all and buy back the one that turns out.

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Always pick up its tail and check for an O under it. This works never had a good dog of any kind that didn't have one.

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Sell them all and buy back the one that turns out.

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What about runts? Does anyone like to pick the runt?

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