Pine Log Kennel
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Re: Loners
quote: Originally posted by Wayne Valentino
don't like em, they are not balanced... Bred for scorecards not coonhunting.... If they strike their own track while hunting they should tree their own track and stick.. If they strike together they should tree together.. This horse racing and running different directions ON PURPOSE is a fault.. Dogs in their true state are a pack animal not loners... I understand why competition hunters want em... But if that is what ya got, don't expect me to buy your pups... I WANT THE PROPER AMOUNT of independance... these ones that tree and as soon as another dog shows up they leave and go tree elsewhere NEED CULLED or at least never bred..
I just happened on this thread, and as luck would have it this is the first reply on it. Im gonna have to express my opinion loudly as Wayne has already done.
Dead loners are not bred for "scorecards not coonhunting"....Dead Loners arent bred, most of the time they are accidents, or freaks. I have consistently tried to reproduce the caliber of hound I like, being a dead loner, and have had very little success at consistency, and know no one else that has consistently produced that type of hound. I may be a little more picky than others though. Ive got a dozer pile full of "future prospects" and "pack hounds". I would say that is my pet peeve, people not being honest with theirselves, and culling the junk they know deep down wont work.
Strike together tree together, strike alone tree alone, strike alone tree together, I agree, dont like independant to a fault.......etc.....leaving when covered, but it happens with truly dead loners sometimes.........
Running different directions......well that is covered in the "coondog" category, have you never cut a dog north and he spun and headed south where you thought werent any coons and got struck and treed in a matter of miniutes??....thats what we call an independant coondog in Arkansas......some folks call it coon sense.......some folks call it slinging the pack dogs off the score card....most wont admit it was the better dog and call it a fault.
In ending Wayne, Ill leave you with this, If you want pack dogs thats your business, I have owned much much more hound in my life than I feel a pack dog has ever been, and ive culled many many many pack dogs, different strokes for different folks I guess.......
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