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Have the dog checked for all tick borne diseases. These diseases affect a dogs stamina and treeing is what takes the most from a dog so they revert to running and the fix could be as simple as laying the dog up while treating it with doxycycline for the prescribed amount of time. I am not saying that it is the problem but it could be.

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I have had some awful good hounds that started young, and I mean started treeing coon young, not barking at caged coon, that did this EXACT same thing.

My thought on this is that we (coon hunters) are so focused on treeing coon that we focus on pups getting hooked a little too much. Pups start treeing coon young and we think that all we have to do is give them experience treeing coon and all is good! The problem comes when the pups natural instincts start kicking in. They start LEARNING to trail, and the next thing you know they are trailing coon, locating coon, then moving on to the next challenge

The important thing to remember is that there is ONLY ONE WAY that a dog can learn....through repetition. The old saying that "practice makes perfect" is not entirely true. If you practice it wrong....you are going to perform it wrong. Having said that, the first thing you must do is stop the cycle of him doing it wrong.. I simply don't believe that you can "hunt him out" of it....remember the repetition thing.

That leaves you a couple of choices....work with him in the yard by laying a drag, hanging a caged coon in a tree...whatever works for the dog....and putting him back on the tree every time he even thinks about leaving... Or simply laying him up for a while. I have let them set for 30 days and hunted them only after they sat for a month and had the problem dissapear....

Bottom line, he's learning to run tracks....but he has to learn to stay treed or all of the track running in the world won't help if he won't stay treed.

Good luck!

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take him to a night hunt, he will learn from the other trained dogs that you draw out with

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this has worked for my 1 dog.

when one of my dogs started doing what urs is doing I used the tone botton n brought the dog back to the tree. I did this a couple times then I got upset n turned some juice on the dog one time and it worked. it started staying. the dog is still young but that's what I did. now right or wrong idk but that's the story. also I had to repeat this a time or 2. also I want to menton this dog will hold pressure most of the time because she loves to be treed alone and has never been a meto type.

every dog is different though.

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and have it checked over good then lay him up.

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Wonder if his ears hurt when he trees. You need to see. Will he tree on a hang up or cage coon that is up in a tree? If he trees on it, but stops and shakes his head some, then you know. Pain in their ears will cause them to not want to tree, they will prefer to trail. It is something about having their head tilted back while they bark.

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