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today i was thinking about the early americans imported the red fox so that they would have a more sporting chase than what the gray fox offered. i wondered, if we could change the coon, what would we add or take away. it seems they would be more sporting if they ran faster and farther. i wonder, could someone selectively breed that into the coons?

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There's guys on here that run coons 6 or 7 miles...if you don't believe it just axe 'em...
All jokin aside, it would be good of there was a way to breed them to be more resistant to some of the diseases they get. Or some of the parasites...I don't think I have ever killed or skinned one that wasn't loaded right down with round worms.

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check out the raccoon dog i think they are in Asia, pretty interesting

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i think whatever one might do, it could just as easily hurt the coons' survival skills in other areas. Coons are bigger in some areas and small in others because they've evolve to survive there. But it is an interesting thought to develop a possum that could cross the road w/o being run over or that would fight like hell, or a coon that would run a little more like a fox.

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Cross a coon on a rabbit so that they would always circle back towards you before treeing. That would make getting to the tree so much easier.

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Originally posted by Doug A
Cross a coon on a rabbit so that they would always circle back towards you before treeing. That would make getting to the tree so much easier.

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tonight i'm home early because my dogs chased a fox for an hour. at that point it crossed the road by the truck. i stood a little while and out steped the dogs. i caught all three and boxed them up and went home. i'd go every night if it was always that easy. most of the time i catch them after following them all over the place for a few hours and leave one or more in the woods all night.

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tonight i'm home early because my dogs chased a fox for an hour. at that point it crossed the road by the truck. i stood a little while and out steped the dogs. i caught all three and boxed them up and went home. i'd go every night if it was always that easy. most of the time i catch them after following them all over the place for a few hours and leave one or more in the woods all night.

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my dogs have taken to chasing fox and almost never trees coon. I'm ok with that.

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