pigsit
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Jarred, I'm just an old country coon hunter, don't know much about dogs, but I can give you some things to consider. First, do you know anything about the genetics of the dog. Is there a close hunting dog up close in her pedigree, mother, father, grand parents? If so might be a victim of her genetics; she is what she will always be. I had a GrNT dog about twenty-five years ago that treed hundreds of coon, but would never hunt over a hundred feet by himself; if he was with another dog would hunt just as wide and didn't mind being split. He was out of an outstanding dog, that was a little bit the same way. The other consideration might be her age, at nine or ten months it's hard to tell a whole lot about how they will look in a year. If her head is together, I would haul her two or three nights a week, and see what happens. Some years back I was hunting a pair of Lipper pups from an outstanding female, at a year old the male was an outstanding young dog, could do it all in style. The female, I hauled her all through season, and every night I considered culling her. She would go about fifty feet on every turnout, and would not go to the dogs. When the other dogs treed, she would follow me to the tree and when I put the coon out, and the other dogs made sure it was dead, she would fight them off of it.
To make a long story short, I hauled her all season, and never saw her do anything. Along in the Spring, I had made a couple drops, and this time I turned out and got my coffee jug out and poured a cup. I looked around for that female, and she was gone. About that time I heard a loud dog open on the creek, the others opened with her, and she treed ahead of them, and just kept doing kit. She placed in the World Hunt as a three year old. Sometimes, you just have to wait for the "marble to fall into place". Good Luck, Tom.
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