Ehill
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Nov 2021
Location: Orange Park, FL
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Wake up a stale dog
First of all, I haven't owned a coon dog in about 15 years and have only had hand me down dogs from my dad that were very good dogs. Ive never had one with the kind of issues this dog has.
She's a little Nite Champ female that is 6 years old. An older gentleman is letting me hunt her to see if I can get some fire back into her. She has been in a raised pen for at least a year getting fat and lazy.
So far, on the two hunts we've taken her on, she is slow to leave our side, but eventually does with ZERO URGENCY. She will only hunt out to about 100 yards. We were told when she hunted, she would hunt out without any help. She will open and tree, but theres hardly much of a race involved. Weve been out two nights and she has treed 4 times the first night, and 3 the second night. The trees have all been slick (95% sure) with the exception of one "grinner".
We do have a lot of coons on the property Im hunting, but I have to believe she is either treeing squirrels, or just locking down on the first tree she finds. We have pulled her off of the slick trees and sent her on, but it basically restarts the process of her hanging by our feet for 5 or 10 minutes and eventually taking off to go hunting again.
We have only hunter her by herself. Being a Nite Champ, I know this little female had the get up and go at one time. Does anyone have any ideas on how to "wake her up" before we throw in the towel? Hunt with another good dog maybe? Or trap and release a coon in front of her? I want to give her a good opportunity to get it together before we give up on her.
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