Dave Richards
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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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Some dogs yes, some dogs no. I like hunting dogs by themselves it shows their weakness and their strength. A dog by themself has to find a coon track, trail that track and tree that track. You see their strengths in striking, trailing and ACCURACY when they are by themselves, no buddies doing part of the afore mentioned things for them. We have all seen dogs that could do part of the equation at a high level, it takes a coon dog to do it all at a high level. I want to see ALL of my dogs operate on their own. I have cut a good dog back in the same spot another dog just hunted without striking a coon and the good dog strike, trail and tree a coon the other dog never knew was there. A true coon dog needs no help in finding, running or treeing a coon. I find that often times folks hunting several dogs together are doing so to cover the faults of those dogs, that together they are decent, but suck by themselves. I could never call a dog a coon dog if they were not a coon dog by themself. I demand more than a lot of folks, I am judging a dog for what it can do alone not in a pack. We hunt and Champion our dogs in competition hunts so they can and will do it in company, but to me the real test is how they operate by themselves. You can say that I am HTXing every night I hunt, they are being tested. Dave
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Dave Richards Treeing Walkers Reg American Saddlebred and Registered Rocky Mt. Show Horses
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