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A coon dawg can get it done under any conditions and anywhere you put them down on the ground,mountains,swamps,sloughs,etc.... Hot,cold,anytime any conditions,any temperatures and the truth of the matter is there are very few coon dawgs out there!!!!!!!!! Now there are quite a few that can tree a coon but the coon dawg is rare and most of the great ones were born that way and just lucky enough to get into the rite hands to get a chance to polish and hone there god given talents!!!!! We need to stop throwing that word around so lightly and get back to breeding for those traits and take the all grand papers and use them in the bathroom!!! Never forget a dog has no idea nor does he or she care how much we pay for them it's not going to male them better or worse and if we don't take care of our responsibility to care for them and put them in the woods theywon't do anything!!!!!!!

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A coon dawg can get it done under any conditions and anywhere you put them down on the ground,mountains,swamps,sloughs,etc.... Hot,cold,anytime any conditions,any temperatures and the truth of the matter is there are very few coon dawgs out there!!!!!!!!! Now there are quite a few that can tree a coon but the coon dawg is rare and most of the great ones were born that way and just lucky enough to get into the rite hands to get a chance to polish and hone there god given talents!!!!! We need to stop throwing that word around so lightly and get back to breeding for those traits and take the all grand papers and use them in the bathroom!!! Never forget a dog has no idea nor does he or she care how much we pay for them it's not going to male them better or worse and if we don't take care of our responsibility to care for them and put them in the woods theywon't do anything!!!!!!!

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Example! I have never seen a dog from Ohio,Midwest where coons are thick as ticks on a dogs back that could tree a coon in my area! They aren't use to going far to strike a coon coon then rarely do those coon run are tap many trees and that in my area is called a slick freeing idiot!!!!!! Most those dogs are hot nosed cover area fast looking for a hot track,in thin coon they don't hunt deep are hard enough and can't handle a hard running coon! A lot of the time it's not all the dogs fault they just have never been exposed to thin coon. So they don't know how to handle it and there is so much tree bred into dogs today well you should now what happens! A lot of people title them as coon dawns and in my opinion there not cause they can't get it done consistently anywhere there dropped!

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Example! I have never seen a dog from Ohio,Midwest where coons are thick as ticks on a dogs back that could tree a coon in my area! They aren't use to going far to strike a coon coon then rarely do those coon run are tap many trees and that in my area is called a slick freeing idiot!!!!!! Most those dogs are hot nosed cover area fast looking for a hot track,in thin coon they don't hunt deep are hard enough and can't handle a hard running coon! A lot of the time it's not all the dogs fault they just have never been exposed to thin coon. So they don't know how to handle it and there is so much tree bred into dogs today well you should now what happens! A lot of people title them as coon dawns and in my opinion there not cause they can't get it done consistently anywhere there dropped!

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I responded to your quote but I see somebody haulbuggied before it took. Put it back up again and I shall respond to it again.

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How many hounds have went to waste and never had a fair chance being hunted because of being in the wrong hands??
I bet the numbers are off the charts

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I live in the midwest and early in the kill season and spring and summer there is plenty of coon to tree but you usually don't just turn out on top of them. However in the late December through Jan. the coon lay-up a lot when it's cold and snow on the ground and a dog has to hunt hard and have a good nose to tree a coon here. I don't like a straight line get a mile in 5 minute type of dog. A dog worth feeding learns where to look first to strike a coon and can usually hit one in a more reasonable distance. I also demand a good handling dog and train them that way. I won't hunt one very long that I can't call in if there aren't doing anything but trying to find a coon. You do not have to take the hunt out of a dog to make it handle the right way. IMO there aren't enough good handling dogs out there these days. I literally hate running after a dog in order to move or go home! I call those kind of dogs time killers! I know from what I read on here on other threads that my dogs could never measure-up to their dogs on here. However I have raised one litter of pups from my old female and had them all sold locally before they were born. Not performanced, not ss, just coutry coondogs! I love a good coon dog of any color!

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Originally posted by POTOMAC A coon dawg can get it done under any conditions and anywhere you put them down on the ground,mountains,swamps,sloughs,etc.... Hot,cold,anytime any conditions,any temperatures and the truth of the matter is there are very few coon dawgs out there!!!!!!!!! Now there are quite a few that can tree a coon but the coon dawg is rare and most of the great ones were born that way and just lucky enough to get into the rite hands to get a chance to polish and hone there god given talents!!!!! We need to stop throwing that word around so lightly and get back to breeding for those traits and take the all grand papers and use them in the bathroom!!! Never forget a dog has no idea nor does he or she care how much we pay for them it's not going to male them better or worse and if we don't take care of our responsibility to care for them and put them in the woods theywon't do anything!!!!!!!

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Great hound hunters of the past quotes I like and live buy .
"Its not the legnth off the ears it whats betwen the ears "- lester Nance
" "If you did not see it in the tree it did not happen" -Herb kennedy
" I live to hunt and I hunt to live " - Henry McIntyre

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Good traits and Bad traits. Just like dogs us humans can pass it on as well.I’m talking in the lines of training a pup. I was guilty of it, truth be known. I was doing some things to a pup that in my mind I thought I was doing the right thing.I was fortunate enough to run in to a good friend who is now a very good mentour that changed my way of thinking.Eveybody has there own way of training and I’m not saying that mine is the best.However I think that there are a lot of bad training traits that get passed on that can ruin a pup.This can go into a lot of topics. The best medicine that I can pass on, just to touch the surface would be to put them in the woods by there SELF and let them do there thing. ( They can’t learn nothing by sitting in the kennel )

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( They can’t learn nothing by sitting in the kennel )

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Through the years I have watch several with great potential get ruined.

So it does happen.

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Most people chuck them pups in a pen till they are 7 to 10 months old or older pull them out take them with a pup trainer and wonder why they don't lead and why they are puking in the box.If you read 90% of the adds for young dogs for sale most is I don't have time to hunt, if a man isn't going to take time to hunt one he probably hasn't done anything else with him either. I notice you live in Ohio a lot easier to pick through those naturals when you have a coon population to expose them to. I also would be willing to bet you are fooling with pups from a specific bloodline or female. The playing in the yard till they are 4 months old makes a big difference in pups vs one that has not had that.

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