Casey Bigelow
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Dellwood Fl.
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I know very little about everything and all about nothing but I believe You have to balance it...
Everybody loves a hard tree dog... NOBODY likes walking to 15 slicks a night..
My 2 cents---> Treeing is bred in them, its more of an instinct than a learned behavior...
Tracking, while somewhat instinctive is more of a learned behavior... A dog learns how to track by experience... More nights in the woods= a better track dog...
EXAMPLE- I have had good young tree dogs that slicked a little more than they should. I think they were treeing on any tree w/ coon scent on it ( a lot of dens too), but w/ more nights in the woods, those hard slicking teedogs figured out how to work a track and became more and more accurate....
You can't really "teach" a dog to tree... They usually have it or they don't.
All the above are generalizations, and I know someone is going to post that they trained their beagle to tree a unicorn or a gerbil to tree a popcorn ball...or their ...HAHAHHA
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