l.lyle
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The "old masters" to train a pup IS the way to go 90% of the time. I've got 'em, sounds like you don't. Sometimes you just got to train a pup by it's self and there is a world of difference in an old "master' and an old dog. A pup, Like a college kid, learns as much from a professor as a dam fool professor. I hope I don't have to go back to training another pup by itself. It takes 2 or 3 times the concentration and 2 or 3 times as long. But it can be done and I will say that the one's trained by me,not by a dog, that did not go to the waste basket, turned out to be a "cut above" those trained by an old dog. And when they got Mature, not old, they turned out to be my pup trainers. That's why I say, "to he-- with an independent dog. The ones I trained by themselves should have been the "independant dogs" right? But no, They turned out to check a young hellion on trash and "put in" if it's a coon or either come out or go find a coon. Eighther way, they were telling on the little hellion.
At your stage and your dog's stage. If you don't think you got what it takes or your dog does'nt have what it takes, by all means' find a master. Maybe you got a silent dog, It's too early to tell on a 10 month old pup; maybe silent ,maybe not. Some people like silent dogs; others don't. I, myself, and don't let this sway you one way or the other, is I like a dog that takes the first track it can run and tree it. The dog ain't got to do 50mph half a mile or two to "see" one crawl up a tree and crank out 100 barks per minute. 50 bpm is fine by me if they open right to tell me hot or cold.
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11-15-2009 07:24 AM
