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Mike, piazon is at the top of the list for independence from what I’ve been told and seen. He definitely left his mark. You ought to sell me a couple straws on piazon. I would appreciate it lol

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The one that I'm obviously most familiar with is Piazon. Like himself, he threw a high percentage of pups that were naturally independent and payed little to no mind of what the dogs around them were doing. I can't think of seeing him or any of his offspring leave because another dog covered them, though I did own a litter mate brother to Piazon I appropriately named Loner that sometimes would. I once had a guy pull me aside on a cast one night while hunting my Abbie female and say tell me the truth do you have something stuffed in her ears so she can't hear other dogs lol. There is a young dog out of Goomba (a Piazon son) named Brutus that is carrying on the family natural independence characteristic . It's a trait I personally can't go to a hunt without. I could take no pride in winning a cast because my dog went along with someone else's and backed them on coon they treed.

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So when you'll cut loose in a 4 dog cast, if turned in on a hot track just what do you expect your dog to do? There's only a few options I can think of.
A: dog put in with the others and tree the sucker
B: dog either go a different direction or go deeper past that track and find it's own so it's not me tooing along with other hounds.
C: just stand there and look stupid
Or If your dog does something else please elaborate.

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Independent hound doesn’t care about other dogs, he runs track and tree’s a coon. Doesn’t matter what anything else does.

Dead independent goes a different direction or deeper. Doesn’t want to be with anything.


Independent to a fault hound runs the track and tree’s first but leaves when other dogs pack in on the tree.

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Independent hound doesn’t care about other dogs, he runs track and tree’s a coon. Doesn’t matter what anything else does.

Dead independent goes a different direction or deeper. Doesn’t want to be with anything.


Independent to a fault hound runs the track and tree’s first but leaves when other dogs pack in on the tree.

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If he is consistently covered on track by a faster track dog. If not, I would expect the dog to by by himself a majority of the time as he is not going to run to a hound that is struck in. He should leave out every time like he is being hunted alone.

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So when you'll cut loose in a 4 dog cast, if turned in on a hot track just what do you expect your dog to do? There's only a few options I can think of.
A: dog put in with the others and tree the sucker
B: dog either go a different direction or go deeper past that track and find it's own so it's not me tooing along with other hounds.
C: just stand there and look stupid
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I watched a 2 hour hunt last night 10 coons treed . Every tree was made by single dogs .

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If I cut loose on top of a hot track I would expect my hound to run and tree it. That’s that particular situation. Now when I cut my hound loose in a cast. I want to be able to cut him facing west while everyone else cuts north, and my hound continues to shoot out west. Not to horse race with the other hounds to just do it. If they strike a track 50 yards away from my hound I expect my hound to not cover them but to continue like they are deaf. Not dysfunctional. Of coarse these are things I want, not necessarily what I always have.

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Will this hound you describe stay treed if another dog covers it?


My experience they’ll stay if it’s their tree . I have two females like that. In thin coon and rough terrain it frustrates me at times. Makes me turn one at a time unless I have plenty of time.


The reason I asked, around 15 years ago I owned one that was a dead loner. That sucker would leave his tree if another dog came in and covered him. Would hold all the pressure in the world, but absolutely never did tree with another dog, even when he made the tree. I’d say he was probably an exception, but his type of independence I feel was driven by quirkiness or social dysfunction as some say. From my limited experience, the ones that just do their own thing every time you cast them and are unaffected by other dogs around them sure don’t come in bunches, nor are they commonly reproduced. If any gyp/stud threw this trait in 1/4 of every litter they had regardless of the other dog mated with, their owner would be extremely fortunate.

If mine strike the track hot with another dog they’ll go the distance and tree with them. If a dog comes in to them they’ll stay. I’d be pissed if they leave their tree lol.

They both have Piazon up close.

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I agree, I never want one to leave a tree. Come hell or high water he better be there.

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Doesn't it really boil down to what ever works for the dog to get a win.
If there slow tracking why track against other dogs? Ya need to shock them away from the other dogs tracking.
If they are not a quality enough track dog to make the correct tree with a coon why have them back another dog? Shock them off trees with other dogs.
The list just keeps going.
A good trainer and lots of dogs may be the answer.

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Doesn't it really boil down to what ever works for the dog to get a win.
If there slow tracking why track against other dogs? Ya need to shock them away from the other dogs tracking.
If they are not a quality enough track dog to make the correct tree with a coon why have them back another dog? Shock them off trees with other dogs.
The list just keeps going.
A good trainer and lots of dogs may be the answer.

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Naturally independent plus man trained and can tree coons!!!!
So what's missing? A few dogs have been described in this post so what traits is missing? Why ain't those independent, go there own way and get a coon treed on the front page each month? Just what traits missing? This question is asked not to offend anyone, just curious what other traits we need to be looking to put in to win it all?

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Naturally independent plus man trained and can tree coons!!!!
So what's missing? A few dogs have been described in this post so what traits is missing? Why ain't those independent, go there own way and get a coon treed on the front page each month? Just what traits missing? This question is asked not to offend anyone, just curious what other traits we need to be looking to put in to win it all?

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im just reading this post and im with Vic where are the other traits?? im no handler and know for a fact its a problem with lonesome. along with an automatic strike dog and alotta luck it will happen someday. i believe B C was close and i would like to produce one of the same. lonesome is for sure a loner who is reproducing a good percentage of that same trait. im just waiting for the right one to pop out

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I’m not sure what you mean “other traits” but besides being independent I like them to go hunting, open on track , be accurate. Having a good mouth and doing it all fast is also nice . Same thing we all want .Mine have some of these lol. Part of the trouble is definitely me. I don’t hunt enough and I’m too quick to call it a night . I work 5 days a week and These Fla woods discourage me .Im not that tough .

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This post is about naturally independant dogs, not man made. I hardly ever shock a dog for anything in fact I struggle with my garmin trying to remember how, in rare instances I think I need, to use the shock function.

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I’m talking about genetically independent, not shock collar independence. Pro athletes have to have the genetics to be great athletes. A true “puncher” in boxing is born with power, can’t be man made. You can’t teach heart, grit, the will to win.

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A dog needs the entire package. I’m not saying that if a hound is independent that he can win everything. You need the package. And in my opinion, independence is high on the list of things needed.

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A dog needs the entire package. I’m not saying that if a hound is independent that he can win everything. You need the package. And in my opinion, independence is high on the list of things needed.

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I rank independence high in the list of hunting traits. But it's a long ways from the most important to me. First and foremost I want accurateness. Does no good in my opinion if the dog is by itself and slick. First on the tree to last on a tree, with dogs or all alone it best have the meat or it doesn't matter anyway. For me faults with independence would be, like the Joe dog I hunted if it doesn't finish the track because it gets beat to the tree, if one leaves when dogs come in, or if the dog out ranges it's mouth on a regular basis. It does no good in a hunt if the dog gets gone treed with the meat but everytime is out of hearing. And that seems to be a problem around here in all breeds lately. But yes a dog needs to have its own brain. Enough to be able to get it done on its own, plus go on when others pull slick and getter done. I don't like me too dogs at all. But when they really look stupid is when they cover slick.

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Well, naturally independent to the degree you fellows want I have not seen, atleast not a worthwhile dog. So I have no help for you. Even if I owned it I would guess it would be a mentally dysfunctional dog unless it had training that caused it to operate in the fashion you fellows want.
I have seen some nice independent dogs don't get me wrong just not independent to the degree you fellows are talking about all in 1 package. Natural ,dead loaner, not dysfunctional, and a top cooner.
Good luck reproducing that with consistency. Most people would just like to train 1

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being independent is the same as being a leader. leaders have the brains to lead same as independent hounds have the ability to do their own thing. followers are the same as the me too dogs in my opinion. pack dogs rely on the leader to get the job done. I'm with you that independence is at the top of my list also. I want to hunt a leader not a follower.

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