Cory Highfill
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Clarksville, AR
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I admire the ability to run a track as much as anybody, but here's a two part question for the peanut gallery:
Do we define success as treeing the most coons, and does a dog really even need to be an exceptional track dog anymore?
Here's my point- years ago, there might be one coon in a section, and you needed a dog that was able to tree it. It didn't really matter if the coon had stirred two hours earlier, had crossed water, fed through a cornfield, whatever. To be successful, you needed to be able to produce that coon.
But there's so many of them these days, I'd almost argue that a dog that doesn't work that tough track out will be more successful because there's always an easy one, always a hot one, just a little farther in.
If the goal is listening to a dog work, or admiring his ability to trail, that's fine, but if it's treeing coons, then one could argue that breeding for colder noses and trailing ability is counterintuitive.
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