john r. kincaid
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: central illinois
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Boys, to me a coondog is not rated by how many hunts he will win or lose. He is rated by how good he is at treein coon! Not trees, but coon! I've seen many an accurate dog that are great coondogs, that can handle the pop-ups in thick coon or the tough ones in thin coon. That will stay treed after you walk a mile and a half to get to them and have the coon. But you put some of these dogs in the hunts with the loose mouths dogs, dogs that wont stay hooked, and dogs that refuse to honor another dog even if he is right and pulls up on a slick twenty feet away just cause he knows he might get his but kicked for backing a dog, some of these good dogs cant take all that pressure. Sure it is a fault but you take this dog by himself or with decent dogs they are coondogs! Maybe not comp. dogs but coondogs! Some good comp. dogs are not what I call coondogs, and some coondogs are not comp. dogs. All dogs have faults I've not seen one yet that if you hunt him enough you wont find them. I just think a coondog should catch (or tree) coon. Not just win hunts.
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