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Wanted to get some advice from some guys with more experience on training two pups at the same time. I got a year old pup that’s running tracks and treeing with my pup trainer, and there’s an 8 month old pup I have the chance to get because the guy who got her is just letting her sit. I go about 2 nights during the week and hunt all weekend long. Just wondering how hard it would be to finish them both out. Thx

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Your asking for trouble trying to train two at a time!
I had to find out the hard way☹️

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The only way I recommend attempting to train two at once is by going in to it (knowing) that when the time comes you will assess both pups and then MOVE the one that you like the least. This pup may still go on and make the better finished dog but you have to be willing to make that final decision by the time they get 14-15 months old as that is when you will need to single one out and start pushing it by it's self.

Just my way of thinking, Good Luck

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Originally posted by Rocketman55
The only way I recommend attempting to train two at once is by going in to it (knowing) that when the time comes you will assess both pups and then MOVE the one that you like the least. This pup may still go on and make the better finished dog but you have to be willing to make that final decision by the time they get 14-15 months old as that is when you will need to single one out and start pushing it by it's self.

Just my way of thinking, Good Luck

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Having one pup and a pup trainer. You already have one more dog than you need. Ask yourself how hard is it for you to leave the pup trainer home now. If you can't do that and just hunt the pup. You should not even consider another pup. But the other side of the coin is we all do it. So get the pup and good luck.

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This definitely made my mind up to just stick with the pup I have now. Thx all.

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You could do like John Wick said he would do, take 5 or 6 pups out with an old dog and let them go hunting, then move down the road and and do the same thing with 6 more pups and an old dog till you would be hunting 4 old dogs and about 24 pups.. He said this when he was asked how he trained , worked or started 150 to 200 hundred pups a year, Uncle John was either the best dog trainer ever, Or The Best Story Teller of all Time! LOL!!!!

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I know a guy that raises a litter up pups and keeps them all and starts them all at once. He goes through them and the one that can run a deer like it's tied to it is the one he keeps. He saids one that has alot of drive to run a deer like it's supposed to be ran will make the best coondog, seems to work for him he sure got some nice hounds

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