wildbill
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Re: Re: Re: Re: .
quote: Originally posted by msinc
I think what he is trying to say is that there are dogs out there that have the breeding {genes} that causes them to be natural coon dogs. This type dog doesn't need to be shown anything other than the woods and they do it right from that point on. I have only seen a few and for certain, they are rare.
Another way of saying the same thing might be that if all the best, big name dogs were kept in a kennel their entire life and never saw a coon, never ran a track, never barked "treed" but they were still bred as we know they have been we would still get all the exact same pups with whatever abilities they have now and the same percentage of dogs turning out.
What gets confusing is that as above, all those big name dogs might not have been big name dogs had they been owned by a different handler that wasn't as good at his job...same dog, same capabilities as a stud or dam but now you don't have most of the dogs being bred to him or her for obvious reasons. Even that cannot change the dogs ability to reproduce whatever it is that he or she reproduces.
To me this is what the old adage "titles don't tree coons or papers don't make him a coon dog" really means...I do believe that most people use those kind of terms out of jealousy and contempt just because they don't own a high caliber or well bred dog.
Edit: I have to wonder, based on what most guys are doing and calling training, if just about all dogs would be better off if they were simply carried to the woods and left to do it on their own. I realize at some point they would have to be broke off of unwanted game, but I don't see much besides that that we are really "training." Either the dog has it or he does not.
right on the money,,
the 8yr old dog on the chain wasn't hunted till she was 8yrs old nor bred till she was 10 due to being a over the road truckdriver and having approx. 40-45 dogs to hunt and bred only the ones that were natural..
a lot people cant afford to do such a breeding program to find a natural.
example from experience: 5 -5week old puppys in 100' chainlink pen..u throw a possum in pen pups run over an smell an walk away from it. toss a dead coon in next to the possum and pups check it out an tear into it like going rip it to pieces.
that's what breeding naturals get you.
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