novicane65
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Re: Tar
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Originally posted by Dave Richards
Cut the drama, a handler of your caliber definitely knows if their dog is operating at a high level. Just as Donnies question posed, you would have a pretty good idea if you treed x number of coons without shooting any coons out and your dog still performed or started to decline in performance. How many coons do you think the PKC guys shoot out to the dogs they are hunting hard in the hunts? Some of those dogs never get a coon shot out to them. I have had some handlers tell me that they could tell whose dogs were getting coons shot out to them because they started slacking off after a couple of trees in a hunt when no coons were shot out. A dog that quits giving it's best because it does not get coons killed is definitely NOT my kind of dog. Dave
Its not just the dog slacking off that you can see. When a dog is recut and it goes back to trees, then there's 2 reasons for it. Reason #1 is the dog wasn't broke to not go back or #2 its been getting coons shot out to it.
Now some dogs do operate better with getting some fur. It amps them up a little. Or they just might go harder or faster for a longer time frame. Or it could have the opposite reaction and it could turn them into a slick tree'er. I've seen both happen. And I don't like a #2 type dog. But as a handler/trainer you should know your dog and how it operates with and without fur. Some dogs it makes no difference to whether or not they get any coons.
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