Registered: Dec 2003
Location: freeburg il
Posts: 218

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Originally posted by rednitehunter
Make up your mind. The post above seemed like you were against the bird dogs and now your praising them?

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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Park Falls, WI.
Posts: 487

It is just supply and demand. I raise both English Coonhounds and German Wirehaired Pointers.

People looking for bird dogs have more money. There are fewer litters of bird dogs compared to the number of people that want one.

Your average bird dogger is a little naive about dogs compared to your average hound dogger. Many people looking for a bird dog think the more they spend the better pup they will get. Well that can be true or false depending on which pup you pick, just like hounds.

With a poor bird dog you can still have some success in spite of the dog. With poor hounds you don't go to too many trees.

The faults in bird dogs can be corrected to some degree by training. With hounds we don't do much training. You are stuck with what the dog inherited.

Just be glad that hounds are not priced like bird dogs. I could not imagine paying $1000 for a pup that turns out worthless.
Kyle

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Registered: May 2006
Location: Poplar Bluff, MO
Posts: 234

very good post

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Registered: Jun 2006
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Originally posted by erick shepheard
What you are forgetting is the average percentage of those pups that "turn out". Other breeds of hunting dogs have a much higher average than coonhounds do because we ask our hounds to be able to do so much more than other breeds.

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