JOE H BROOKS
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Hillsboro,ohio
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Cold Nose
What i really love to see, is that old black&tan treeing a coon, that nothing else can open on, and nothing else on the tree, but him, and a big coon laying on a big limb, in plain sight. The dogs, with a real good nose, seem to be grandsons, of Set-Em-Up Ace, there are others, with the better nose. Carl Hanselman, loved his old Thunder Bo Dee dog, he also said, that none of the pups out of him, had his nose, and he didn't think you could bred for the nose. With the hunts, going to two hours, then to one hour, hunts, you have a foot race. The only problem with that, in the season, when it turns cold, they can't tree you a coon, just trees. And when they are in a big hurry, to tree, those pop ups, they tend to go backwards, if the coon goes north, and the dogs are going south, they tend to grab a tree. Cause most dogs, are not hunted enough by themselves, they start treeing their own coon, then we put them in night hunts before they are ready. And the better the dog, the quicker, he grows old, my old Boone dog, stubbled the other day, i thought, boy he's getting feeble, i checked his papers, he was 13 years old in june, or 91 years by human age. I had Boone in only five hunts, some big, some small, he did not care which way the pack went, he would show you the coon, they would show you a slick tree. I did not put him in a hunt till he was 4 years old, the more i hunted him the better he got. Most dogs today are put in hunts too young, they are not solid enough yet, and they pick up a lot of bad habits, from the hunts.
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