msinc
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Re: msinc
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Originally posted by lraines
I too thought maybe squirrel's were just an excuse for my dog also. Then one day I deciced too take him out in daytime and see what happened. WELL needless to say they were not an excuse but a HUGE problem. This dam dog would get treed all over the place and guess what some times with or without a squirrel. I would keep my distance so he could not see me and procedded to electrocuting him on every tree he made the first day. the second day every time he opened is mouth he got fried, by the time the third day rolled around he hunted for 2.5 hours and covered an unreal amount of ground and guess what no barks. Well as a spring 1 year old I made to the semifinals at the superstakes without a single minus tree. You tell me if those boogers are not the problem with super tree minded dogs of today.
You went during the day and you saw some of the squirrels. I have no problem believing that and agreeing with what you are saying. What I said was that in four years time and tens of thousands of trail camera photos the two animals I have never seen after dark at any of my feeders are gray squirrels and fox squirrels. If they moved at night after dark I would have at least captured one. I even have photos of some kind of strange animal that nobody knows what it is. So, I have a hard time believing I haven't seen a squirrel move at night in four years but these guys are "treeing squirrels" every time they go hunting 1:00am in the morning????
I took a break from coon hunting and am just this past 6 months or so getting back into it. I last had dogs in 1995 or 96. Back then dogs simply slick treed. Nobody blamed it on squirrels. Now, it seems like it is better to say it's a squirrel instead of saying the dog is lying because I guess it sounds better that the dog actually did smell and follow an animal. I don't get it either way...the cold hard fact is whichever, lying, slick or squirrel, the dog aint running and treeing a coon.
Back in the day {and even now} we had our excuse stories too...the old famous bobcat that the dogs "tree" and then "he jumps out when he sees your light coming thru the woods"....yeah right, we finally took three wheelers and said Mr. Bobcat will run out of gas before we do. He did...but it wasn't no bobcat. It was a deer. It would get tired of running and the dogs would bay it. The only thing true about the old famous bobcat that jumps out was that for sure he would take off when he seen our lights.
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