Registered: May 2016
Location: Palatka, FL
Posts: 5106

I have three pups here that I own one and two are buddies. They are all about 9-10 months of age and I figured I would try and get them started. For the past 3 weeks I have been taking them in the morning about 6:30 and putting around feeders and letting them get use to the woods. About two weeks ago I showed them a cage coon with NO results or excitement from any of the pups. Actually a little shy of that coon. Well I have kept taking them and they are hunting out good. Also the main thing I am doing it getting use to riding in the dog box. Handling around the dog box with being collared and staying in the box till I want them to come out. It's been fun and interesting and very enjoyable. Well I trapped a coon and figured it was time to show them a cage coon again. I sent them into the woods towards a feeder that I trap close to. They saw the coon and the pups were again timid. I have a pup trainer also and he started to bark at the coon but the pups were still timid. I leashed the older dog back and let the coon loose to run. Well the Light switch went off. This was the first time in several tries to get them to bark at a coon. Long ways to go but the journey is getting more fun everyday. I might go through the cage coon one more time. Then they will be singled out with an older dog at night or hunted solo around the feeder. Just depends on how they are responding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bZRVi4tJs

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