larrypoe
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John,
Sure they were rare then. The reason they were rare was because those foundation dogs, pulled from running packs, couldnt reproduce. It took years of breeding to "fix" those traits into the genetic makeup of the dogs we hunt today.
This doesnt change the fact that those dogs were in fact culls from running packs. Dogs who in spite all efforts to break them, preferred to leave the pack and tree instead of run all night.
2 other things compounded to add to that.
1) There wasnt many of them, which ment they had to be bred to running dogs to reproduce at all
2) Untill the late 1940's the three major breeds, walker,bluetick,and english, were all registered togather as English Fox and Coonhounds. This ment it was up to the individual breeder to decide were to place the enfasis, running dogs(pack) or tree dogs. Most just shot the tree dogs as "sports" and never talked about them untill the nite hunts started.
One other point. The reason most of those dogs took to treeing instead of running with the pack in the first place was because they were too SLOW to keep up. ie poor track dogs in the first place.
The slow, albet independent, ones started running critters that treed (assuming it wasnt just a natural born instinct in the first place) because of there natural desire to "catch"
the slow me too pack dogs just babbled along behind the pack. Could realy care less as long as they were close to there buddys.
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