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What's your definition of a well started dog as far what they should be able to do.

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You buying or selling?

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I would be interested in the right one.but was just looking what everyone's opinion was.

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My opinion of well started would be a young dog that trees 50-75% of the nights I take it hunting. The occasional possum but no other non climbing game. Slick trees would be 75% or less depending on the time of year. Hunting range wouldn't be factored in at this point as much due to the consistency of finding a track and treeing. This is what I would call a "well started dog". It's a notch above lightly started and below finished. Hope that this fits the question

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My opinion of well started would be a young dog that trees 50-75% of the nights I take it hunting. The occasional possum but no other non climbing game. Slick trees would be 75% or less depending on the time of year. Hunting range wouldn't be factored in at this point as much due to the consistency of finding a track and treeing. This is what I would call a "well started dog". It's a notch above lightly started and below finished. Hope that this fits the question

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Loads, leads, no off game. Goes with the old dogs trail to tree
Alone maybe struggles with harder tracks; able to tree easy to medium long tracks .
Well started- needs boot leather and woods time.

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More than likely the well started dog I'm looking for is not for sale or I couldn't afford unless I got lucky…

Getting lucky find a young dog that hasn't been handled right…or someone hasn't the room for the young dog…

So I would look for a pup with lots of potential

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One that will bark some at a cage coon! 😂😂

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My opinion of well started would be a young dog that trees 50-75% of the nights I take it hunting. The occasional possum but no other non climbing game. Slick trees would be 75% or less depending on the time of year. Hunting range wouldn't be factored in at this point as much due to the consistency of finding a track and treeing. This is what I would call a "well started dog". It's a notch above lightly started and below finished. Hope that this fits the question

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DaL NH yeah a lot of people feel that way too. But there are others who bring them to me and have it worked out of them to make a finished hound. I have gotten frustrated a time or too also after the dog was past a certain age and I gave up on them as well. And some dogs are just going to slick tree too much.

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To me a well started dog is already broke from off game, and treeing on its own with 75% to 80% accuracy. I’ll tolerate a few slicks & dens here & there. Even the best hound is gonna slick at some point. It’s more important to me to understand the why the dog is throwing its head up on a slick. Well started to me means they probably still got some puppy stuff to work out, but will tree coons. Maybe they ain’t a lock down, stay put & see ya when you get here tree dog yet, or maybe they still struggle on a track that’s bad cold or way too hot. Could be they struggle in bad weather, rough terrain or in the water. My point is a well started dog is one that’s got it figured out what they are out there to do & does most of it well but maybe still growing into their nose & need some fine tuning in one area or another. A well started dog to me is only about 60-120 nights of hard hunting away from a finished hound.

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To me a well started dog is already broke from off game, and treeing on its own with 75% to 80% accuracy. I’ll tolerate a few slicks & dens here & there. Even the best hound is gonna slick at some point. It’s more important to me to understand the why the dog is throwing its head up on a slick. Well started to me means they probably still got some puppy stuff to work out, but will tree coons. Maybe they ain’t a lock down, stay put & see ya when you get here tree dog yet, or maybe they still struggle on a track that’s bad cold or way too hot. Could be they struggle in bad weather, rough terrain or in the water. My point is a well started dog is one that’s got it figured out what they are out there to do & does most of it well but maybe still growing into their nose & need some fine tuning in one area or another. A well started dog to me is only about 60-120 nights of hard hunting away from a finished hound.

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