l.lyle
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Originally posted by Glenn Wells
I have no idea if you could train a dog to wind and tree layups or not, it's more a trait that just bred into them. I do know that I had a hound that was cold nosed, would open as soon a came to a track, but when wind was right he would tree all you cared to pack out, without ever opening on trail ! I have seen coons laying on limbs warming , gone home got the dog and returned 3 hours later, and the only sound heard was Reb's locate as he hit the tree ! You can learn a lot about dogs by taking them hunting in the daylight ... have seen a lot of coons from dawn to about 9am.
Something that I have done to see if a puppy might have any winding ability was to lay a dead coon up in a tree , wait a while and bring puppy out by himself, let him venture around and see if he shows any reaction when wind blows toward him . They seem to get nervous and start looking around as if a predator was near . The ones that showed a reaction later went on to tree layups and would strike driving down road , when they grew up. I would do this before they had ever seen a hide or coon, and always in a place where they could not see anything .
I have a picture and I'll try to take a picture of a picture and post it of my better lay-up dog when he was 4 months old. I had a cootail on a short string on a fishing pole to let him chase it around that afternoon. He did and i put him up. About midnight a dog woke me up sounding treed. I went out to find that pup had got out the pen and was treeing on a blueberry bush in the yard where I had thrown the pole and tail when I got through. No, I had not layed a trail anywhere close to those blueberry bushes. He found it on his own even though the blueberry bushes are hardly 12 feet tall. Maybe I accidentally trained him to wind.
Oh and for the felow that said a dog has no reason to stand on a tree unless it's the last tree he smelled the coon on'. This particular dog ain't even good at standing on his hind legs to get a dose of hamberger. I have had a shonuff Blackmouth Cur that could walk around most good as me on her hind legs. But you can look at him treeing. He ain't treeing on a tree. you can tell he's just using it for something to lean up on. If he was smelling the scent, on all fours he would be thirty or forty feet further away. So he gets as close as the breeze will allow and leans on something.
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