Fisher13
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Location: Pennsylvania
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Originally posted by Night Shift
What are the qualities you are wanting to improve on. I think this plays a big part in breeding if the bad quality is aggressive behavior I would never breed just my opinion.
I would like to improve on her track speed, she is a dead loner so she can win with out being the fastest dog, but to me this is the biggest area of need. She could use some improvement in her track mouth, but ive certainly heard worst.
She also was a bit quirky in a public setting as a pup, but has seem to grow out of most of those issues.
She is fine around the house, and knows and loves all my friends and family, but is a bit cautious around strangers.
This is a concern for me, it seems to me that a lot guys that don't understand dogs, will right of a quirky pup before they even have a chance to display there talent. However to me it's a lot easier to take a dog to tractor supply or a picnic to work on a pups socializing skills then it is to teach them to tree a coon. She was treeing drags at 3 months and treed her first wild coon at 7 months. That was with limited work, I had another pup at the time I was focusing on. I was actually trying to stall her, to insure I wouldn't burn her out. In hindsight I wish I would have pounded her, I'm sure she would be closed to being finished by now if I would have.
She has a ton of desire, leaves on a run and comes on a run, she hates being pulled from a track or tree.
She is smart, I can take her jogging with out a lead,sits,heals,recalls on command, she hunts on command, is nuts over coon,straight, will tell on other dogs.
She has ability, she has more nose power then is needed, accurate, plenty of coon sense, followed water naturally at a young age, will split all night long and hold pressure. Looks her best in the dead of winter. She either has a coon or a den almost every time. Occasionally she will get hung up but she is just turning 2.
She is fairly biddable, she can be hard headed about somethings like being pulled off a track, or going hunting when she knows the coon that she just treed is in the truck.
She thinks for herself, but loves to work.
She is a little small, but is put together well, good feet, good hips, good looks, long legged, nice ears and head.
The vet said when she was a puppy that she had a slight underbite I believe, I guess I would need to consider that as well. I looked a few months back and didn't think it was very noticeable but my eye is untrained.
She has won 2 out of the 3 hunts I put her in this fall so far.
Treeing the only coons seen in both casts. However she did have 4th strike every time, but on the other hand had all her own 1st. So I guess you could say she isn't a real flashy dog, but a nice pleasure dog that can win hunts because she just does her own thing and has a knack for treeing coon.
I like her a lot, but my buddy and I both agreed she could use more track speed and a bigger mouth. I do like her mouth, especially when she comes trees, but it could be bigger.
If I decide to breed her, I think I want to breed her to a stud that shares some common ancestry who is throwing very fast dogs, with lots of smarts and drive, but is also very loud for his size.
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