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Location: Freeport,TX
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Gravitate to - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

Fig. to move slowly toward someone or something, as if being pulled by gravity. People tend to gravitate toward the kitchen at parties. Unless you correct their manners, the children will gravitate toward rude behavior.

The above I copied from the free dictionary...

I tend to use one of these words to explain things that cause a change...a change towards a direction...changing something for better or worse as we move forward...

one example is when we discuss breeding better dogs...
I have heard and read where many have said that there are many culls when breeding hunting dogs and others feel like it is not possible to consistently breed better dogs...I totally disagree...

I will explain...we must look at the big picture...we must look at the breeding program...and not just at one or two litters (tunnel vision), and then start to make those assumptions based on those two litters that produced 40 of 50 percent culls...

When we look at the breeding program there will be culls...but when it is well thought out and we breed best to best...especially from a superior family of dogs...then we can gravitate towards breeding better dogs...success means we will be breeding a higher percentage of better dogs as we breed more generations of dogs...we are progressing (producing better dogs and less culls) as we move forward...if we can't do that then we need to leave breeding dogs to others and we can just buy a pup when we need one...

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Reuben you are correct. I personally think all breeds of dogs as a whole have Gravitated to pups being produced that makes it easier for all breeds to have young dogs that show promise at an early age and more than ever finish out to make a respectable coon hound. This is not something that happened with our hounds 40 or 50 years ago.

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I figured out a long time ago a lot of so called culls not all are the result of mis handling by a cull trainer. I have made dogs that have won some big time hunts that were just mis handled dogs respond different they have been beaten and shocked so much they are confused on what they are suppose to do.there are ways to correct a dog other than beating or shocking it to death you would be surprised how much you can learn a dog with some day time hunting. Shocking systems are a great tool if used correctly. I have seen a lot more trainers that need culled than dogs but you never hear of that it is always blamed on the dog. Dogs have feelings and are a lot more compassionate than a lot of people they are a lot smarter than their trainers a large part of the time.

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How many feel as I do that some of the best breeders vs trainers in the world were hunters that couldn't afford to buy good dogs when they wanted so they had to be patient and work and refine what they had and often times that created a stock of dogs that pleased the hard to please.



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Originally posted by bowling
I figured out a long time ago a lot of so called culls not all are the result of mis handling by a cull trainer. I have made dogs that have won some big time hunts that were just mis handled dogs respond different they have been beaten and shocked so much they are confused on what they are suppose to do.there are ways to correct a dog other than beating or shocking it to death you would be surprised how much you can learn a dog with some day time hunting. Shocking systems are a great tool if used correctly. I have seen a lot more trainers that need culled than dogs but you never hear of that it is always blamed on the dog. Dogs have feelings and are a lot more compassionate than a lot of people they are a lot smarter than their trainers a large part of the time.

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