Fisher13
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Registered: Dec 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
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Ron that makes a lot of sense. To be a little more case specific I will go into to more detail, so you guys can see my dilemma.
My pup and the mother both are more then capable of hunting in the hunts and competing, neither will follow another dog, but have no problems with a strange dog following them or treeing with them.
They are very outgoing around the house,don't mind strange dogs, recognize family and friends, love children. However if it's someone they haven't met, they will take a couple of minutes to warm up to the person or if they get a weird vibe they may never warm up to the person. They don't like being petted by strangers, but are fine standing there or being handled by another hunter.
Mine was a bit timid as a pup but completed all training in a timely fashion, and hunted out well as a pup, treed her first wild coon at 7 months. She struggled in social aspects such as taking her to a pet smart, but has never had any issues in the woods, just public settings like the vet office or a clinic or a trip to tractor supply.
She needed extra time with socializing had to put her around everyday people situations more so then other dogs, but imo needed a lot less time in the woods then other dogs.
I was told by another seasoned hunter that a litter mate to mine was the easiest most natural hound he had ever trained in his lifetime of hunting, even though my experience is much more limited I could say the same.
So how do you assess a line like this. Yes they struggle with timidness but can run a mile long track naturally at an early age, and tree accurately and only get better with time.
To me personally I'd rather have a negative trait like human shyness, where through just plain exposure to people the pup can grow out of it, and has very little effect on them in the woods, then have a fault like not enough track power. This is why I'm struggling with continuing with this line. My pup has outgrown most of her social issues as well as the mother, it seems that as puppies they just don't deal well with new and unfamiliar settings outside of the woods.
Which in my experience will cause many hunters to write them off immediately, which is ironic due to the fact they are very gamey and tree wild coon with virtually no training. However this causes a serious dilemma imo, because if I were to find a female I felt worthy of breeding out of this line but she continued to throw this human shyness trait, I feel most guys would right the pups off before they had a shot pretty much ****ing many of the pups to be traded around.
What do you guys think?
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