Casey Bigelow
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Dellwood Fl.
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I think a truly stay put tree dog has to have several mean bones in their body ( to handle fang pressure- see below) ... If you are including competition hunts....
I can count on one hand the # of trees Zero has left.. He a quick, accurate, tree dog and once parked he is there to stay, for howeverlong it takes, by himself, with company, with other dogs treed 10 ft or a mile away or with dogs running junk all around him..
The few trees he has left is due to severe FANG pressure... He won't fight... yet. I hope the day never comes when he does, but I know it's coming, but for right now, he's a wuss... On the good side, he figures out the mean dogs quick and stays away from them and trees his own coon, the problem is when the mean dog covers him.
A Good example of Zero's stay put ability is a pkc hunt about a year back, walker dog w 30k lifetime earnings and zero split 50 feet apart- trees not touching... Had to wait the 5 min on Zero
(long story, another dog was in the box, but hadn't been officially withdrew, so the judge used that to his advantage and I couldn't handle Zero...so he could try to squall zero off his tree so he'd draw minus because zero was ahead)..
5 minutes of the judge squalling, shaking vines- everything he could do to pull zero off his tree...with the walker treeing 50 ft away... I just smiled...
Zero didn't pull... plus he had his coon and the Judge's dog didn't.. That was a sweet win......
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