Ron Ashbaugh
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Re: coons tapping trees
quote: Originally posted by Brettlil
i have a young pup, he is only 7 months old. i believe that he has been treeing on tapped trees. he is doing great. sometimes thou he will fall within 50 yards of the coon. ive been hunting him on feeders so most of his coons are hot. he is becoming independent and seems to want to spilt tree. ive havent ran into to this problem before. ive always hunted with my old hound and she has never ran into this problem. he will tree with other dogs sometimes, but just trees harder by himself. what should i do to try to correct this? is it that he is just young and too excited? im not 100% positive these are tapped but my old hound will bark at the tree, but she wont tree on them, so im guess that it is tapped. thanks for the advise!
This is a young dog. I think at times people try to make more of working with a dog than there is. After doing this a little, I got to the point where when a dog is this young, I take it out, cut it loose and I want it to get treed. When I get there, there is either a coon in the tree, or not a coon in the tree. If there is a coon, provide reward, if there isn't provide a mild punishment at first and work your way up if it doesn't get better. That is really all there is too it at this point. Trying to figure out why how and what every move a dog makes means is really an effort in futility and at the end of the day, what does it matter "why"....you need to focus on the end result and adjust accordingly.
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