Dave Richards
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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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Hunting
Several years ago I purchased a young dog coming 2 years old at the end of hunting season. I did not hunt her until Oct 15 or 7 months later. My friends wanted to hunt opening night and we did just that. I owned a couple of top coon dogs and when we met up to go hunting that night everyone wanted to know what dog I was hunting that night. I told them I had my young female and that said I thought you were bringing a coon dog. I replied lets just see and my young dog put on a coon treeing clinic that night. My buddies were dumb founded, I just laughed. Mind you this dog was under 2 years old and had not been hunted in 7 months. Seeing this is enough for anyone to know that laying a dog up does NOT effect their coon treeing ability at all. The ability is there or it is not there, hunting simply gets them in physical condition, it definitely does not give them ability. As Reuben one of the posters on this web site states ability is something they are born with, NOT something you can train or get by hunting. Now hunting just lets them express their ability and stay in shape. You can not make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Lol. Dave
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Dave Richards Treeing Walkers Reg American Saddlebred and Registered Rocky Mt. Show Horses
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