texhog
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Longview Texas
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Rob, Arkie was the easiest dog to train, he was coon crazy the first time he ever saw a coon at 5 months. I started taking him then, I guess I probab;y hunted him about a dozen times before he actually started, but the 1st thing he ever did was tree a coon behind 4 old dogs, he was 6 months old and just treed coons every since. Now Rock started after 3 hunts at 8 months old and was the slick treeingest thing you ever saw but he would stay even if it took you an hour to get to him. I bet that first week he made 30 or 35 trees and I looked at about 2 coons, about another week went by and he improved a little on his own, no less trees just a few more coon seen, by then I was getting worried and descided you couldnt hurt him if you switched him off a slick tree, so what I would do is I wouldnt even leash him up, I would go into the tree and if I could tell it was slick I would get a switch and just run him off, well he would just go right out and pick the track back up and tree the coon! After about a week of this treatment he got to where he didnt miss many at all. Then he got bad about going back to the trees ( him and Merchants Bounty) and just a couple times with the shock collar took care of that! By the time he was 11 months old he was like an old dog, never had to do anything to him again. He will still go through a spell when the coons start feeding on acorns every year and he will miss more than normal but about a week of hunting and he gets them figured out.
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