Registered: Dec 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
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Originally posted by msinc
"It does not effect there hunt at all, ever try to pet a coyote?"

Their hunt??? What about my hunt???? If the dog is so shy it wont come to me when it's time to go home and cannot be trained to do so then it is no good to me.
I know you believe you can train out all the problems of the dog world, and that is a good thing...I would way rather sell one of my puppies to a guy like you {if I was a breeder} at least I know they would get as best a shot at it as they could get.
Thankfully, there are not very many severely shy dogs out there...but I have seen a handful in my time that just would not be changed. I would very much like to have the time I wasted on them back to use on a better prospect.

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Originally posted by gcblues
I have a 15 month old well bred gyp that I started at 12 months. She doesnt care about a caged coon . She will go hunting out up to around 400 yards on her own . Trouble is she trees possum nearly every turn out! Coon are thin here but they are here. She's gotten where she trees pretty hard and I didn't want to shock her or switch her at the tree and take a chance on messing up her treeing. She isn't shy but she isn't a dog that you can whip the crap out of and send her charging back out to hunt.Id appreciate any ideas how to turn her attention to coon. Thx. GC

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Pam thanks ,She'd make a world class possum hound! LOL Shes a good dog but walking through 400 yards of swamp to a possum is hard to take. Hoping she'll come across a good scent one of these nights and get it straightened out. Sorry I didn't mean to hijack this mans thread .GC

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Pam thanks ,She'd make a world class possum hound! LOL Shes a good dog but walking through 400 yards of swamp to a possum is hard to take. Hoping she'll come across a good scent one of these nights and get it straightened out. Sorry I didn't mean to hijack this mans thread .GC

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Fisher I'm guessing the dog did start treeing coon since you kept him . Was the dog any good? Was it trashy on other stuff or just possum? i sure like this dog , great acting easy handling goes hunting and is tone broke. She was 600 yards the other night and I bump that tone button and she came right in. She just love the slick tails. Time will tell I guess.gc

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Fisher I'm guessing the dog did start treeing coon since you kept him . Was the dog any good? Was it trashy on other stuff or just possum? i sure like this dog , great acting easy handling goes hunting and is tone broke. She was 600 yards the other night and I bump that tone button and she came right in. She just love the slick tails. Time will tell I guess.gc

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Originally posted by POTOMAC
If your looking for at best a dog that an just tree coon than you can keep working !! If your looking for one that rates in the top percentile coon dawgs than cut your losses and move on !!! They are born with hunt and desire either they have it or they don't and if they don't save yourself a lot of time and aggravation!!!!

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