Stranger
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Ontario
Posts: 315 |
Re: Who trained the last few world ch.
quote: Originally posted by Okie Dawg
Does anyone know who trained the last few world champions from pup threw there first year or two? Who trained any of the big hunt winners? Wonder if any of them would tell a person how they were as pups. when they were started, how they were started, what kind of drive they had. Maybe set down have coffee and let a person pic there brain. I kow I got tired of that sometimes at search seminars BUT sure wood like to get in the wood with some of these guys or read a little of what they have to say about the dogs as pups.
Oh and did the trainers handle them in the hunts?
This is a little while ago but I raised and trained 1996 PKC World Champion Eileen's Wildtime from a pup and sold her as a four year old finished dog. Along with my partner Wayne, we Granded her out in UKC as a three year old. Time had alot of drive, but even more so impressive was her desire to compete, and she was really good at keeping her head together in competition. As a pup, she started around eight months old running some track, she was put away shortly after due to our winter. In April of the next year she treed her first coon by herself. I exposed her to every type of hunting territory I could. I am fortunate enough to have spots where I hunt that have thick coon as well as very thin coon. I hunted her in thick cedar swamps with the belief that if she could drive a track thru there she should be able to fly thru the hardwoods, which she could. She needed very little correction along the way, and was very accurate for the style of hound she was. She had a great personality and loved attention, but first and foremost, she treed coons for her, I was secondary. In my experience there is such a fine line between a very good hound and a great hound, the differences are very subtle. I've owned some very nice hounds since her and still have some of her blood in my yard, but I have never owned another hound quite like her though.
__________________
"Pretty is as Pretty Does"
Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged
|