bphart8530
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Registered: Aug 2016
Location: Seville, OH
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Update
Dog located, treed, and stayed for the first time last night. Almost 13 months old. I would like to tell you guys everything I did to “train her.”
•only hunted her alone, except for a couple times
•tone broke her. Everytime she quit a track I toned her back to the last place she had barked.
•based off of her track on my garmin, and occasionally finding the coon, I tied her back to a tree where the track ended. That broke the habit of her going on, but didn’t make her tree. .
•trained her to bark everytime she got tied back. I did this by tying her back, and walking away til she barked. Everytime she barked I would walk closer than pet her.
•the hope was for her to be tied back and smell some of those tracks going up the tree. Then relate the barking on the leash to the track going up.
•eventually, she started smelling up those trees and barking on her own after I tied her back.. I would then untie her but make her stay at the tree and “tree” while I pet her. So she learned to bark with no leash on.
... It took about 25 of these kind of trees. Not killing very many coon at all. Some may think all of what I did was extreme. Or that there was a better method. I personally do not think there would be a better method. This is my first coon hound i have bought to train. No ones training techniques made a whole lot of sense so I made up my own. Lol. And to be honest, I don’t think just putting her in the woods with older dogs over and over again was going to help her. Just wanted to give you an update
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