morgan branch
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Registered: Nov 2014
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Preacher Tom, and Mr. Conkey. My response was that I've seen several ruined by people trying to make independent dogs out of pack mentality dogs. Folks being inconsistent with the shock button.... Yes it sure makes dogs handle better. 100% better. We can correct a lot of UNWANTED behavior. This is for our liking correct?? It makes them behave the way we need them to and it helps keep them off the roads, posted land and so forth. We can help mold them into the hound we want as owners with a little buzz. Fellas I'm not leaving home without my alpha..... Every time to the woods is a training session not just a hunt in my book. I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. My hounds handle and mind better than my ex-wife's house dog. No leash needed.. I have a couple that on a dark night you can see them glow they have taken so much electricity, but they do what is asked of them.. But to answer the question again. no I don't feel as if technology has made an more of my pups into coonhounds... Swimming across the river to get them, keeping them off the hiway, breaking them off deer, not covering another dog, not babbling, not barking in the box and walking without a lead are all things to help us not really the pup if you think about it. I am pushing 50 pretty hard and have coonhunted in every shape and form since I was 11. I have never had a day in my life in the last 40 years that I have not had a coonhound, some better than others. I typically have a hound that can compete no matter what you cut him with but I have yet to see a gadget help them on a tough track, to tree lay ups when the coons aren't moving. to head towards the creek instead of hunting the ridge. To hush when you can't out run the other dogs. To grab the end that bites instead of the butt.. COONSENSE.. If it's not in their genes it will never be, no matter how much we want it to be. If they don't have the brains to understand why they are being corrected then they will never develop into a better hound...So my readers digest answer is ; no it doesn't help turn them into hounds , it helps us make them more user friendly. It makes things better for us. This is just my thoughts on the matter, along with about a $ might get ya a cup of coffee so my opinion ain't worth much....
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