Ron Ashbaugh
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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Mercer PA
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IMO pups gotta do 2 things to be "workable" you gotta go hunting at least a little, and you eventually gotta get treed, even if its the wrong game, or wrong trees. Without these 2 things as a bare minimum it is almost impossible for a trainer to get a pup going.
I like to show them a coon just to they have an excitement level toward that scent.......than I turn NOT SHOWN coons loose as I catch them and take them hunting even chance I get. It can be slow going at times taking a pup by itself but I feel like it learns exponentially more that way on a night in night out basis.
Spend time with the dog outside of the woods, take it for walks when its young, expose it to a lot of things and teach it what reward and punishment is. In my experience it takes a lot of different pups til you find that one.......once you do you will wonder why you wasted so much time on on the others. Good luck, I hope your first one is the one!!
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