Reuben
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quote: Originally posted by Bruce m. Conkey
Lot of good answers and comments here.
First of all and something that I think we miss is.
Anything a dog does can be a FAULT. Even the things we want them to do, if they consistently take it to an extreme. I want mine to hunt deep if necessary. But I don't want it doing it in a straight line and going by coon to just get away. That is a fault to me.
Thats what we overlook when we get hashing out hard hunting or deep hunting dogs. Most want one to hunt and have the drive to keep hunting. But, just like the dog that trees to many slick trees. We can breed the dog that hunts to far. Many reasons for this and they are faults. Perhaps that dog doesn't have the ability to smell or excitement level to run the tracks it is going by.
I just hate it when people see a deep hunting dog that gets deep if it NEEDS to and compares it to a deep hunting dog that does it because it is a FAULT in his breeding. There is a difference.
Three drops off trees in the same area a couple nights ago. One coon within 100 yards, second coon probably 100 yards from that but the dog probably traveled 400 or 500 yards on the track. But from that tree and the dog had to hunt a little further to find one. Made a couple semi circles, crossed a couple dirt roads and came treed perhaps 3/4 miles away. If he hadn't found the last coon he might have been 1.5 miles away but the Garmin showed he was looking in the right spots for a coon so I can't fault him it he had to go some distance to get the job done.
I 100% agree with what Bruce said...
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