pup training

[plott hunter]

[bigdog061]

walk,walk,walk,walk,walk,walk, find coon tracks in snow, do allot of walking in the mornings when temperature is warmest! Yes you can tree coon in day time this time of year! Basically know where the coon are at all times of year and expose the dog to da coon. Older honest dogs are good help, but for this hard headed hillbilly.......I will never be convinced that you need an older dog to make a dog!! Coon dogs are born, not made!!!!!!! Exposure,exposure,exposure!!!!!! Just my opinion!

Paul

[Calkins]

Well said.

[MN Mad Dog]

[kayla090205]

[briarpatch]

[plottchaser]

time! just keep the dog in the woods and after a while lay som drags and encorage the pup to tree on it.

[michael.magorian]

Don't rush the pup with live coons already. Like what was said already, let a pup be a pup. Walk the dog in the woods during the day and night, and when it gets confidence about moving through the trees and using its nose a little let it off the leash and let it adventure around. Right before you are thinking about hunting it, within a month, let that pup see and play with a live coon. There is no reason to jump into things too quick. This is the time when you can easily wreck a pup.

[plottchaser]

[bigdog061]

Mn mad dog....where i live coon are thick, maybe there not in your area! Have you ever pondered how folks like Ben Lilly trained young dogs? There is nothing wrong with trapping a coon and turning it loose or even all the other stuff people suggest. However I believe it should be done no more than 2 times. I had a dog once thar went nuts on a cage coon and would tree turned out coons. That dog never did tree a coon on it's own and was in very thick coon country.

It is just my opinion/expierence! Now on the subject of just walking around just stumbling on a coon. again...How did the old timers train dogs? Like I said I myself am in thick coon country. If a person walks a pup/dog in thick coon country 2-3 hours a night say around 20-30 times and the dog don't tree an easy coon....well, the dog won't be eating my food anymore!

In this day and age, folks just don't walk like they did in the past! I know for fact you can catch coon road hunting.....however, you take a dog and road hunt it 10 nights, then take the same dog and walk hunt it 10 nights.......you will catch more coon walking! given the same amount of time! Law of average tells you eventually you will walk over hot coon tracks eventually and if the dog is bred right, it has to tree eventually! Plus all that time spent with the pup/dog is very valuable time together!

If I shoot pool once a week, and you shoot 6-7 times a week, who ya reckon is gonna be a better pool shooter????????

Paul

[MN Mad Dog]

bigdog061... Dog training in my opinion is a series of steps set up in a way to make the dog succeed and progress forward. So here are 2 scenarios to ponder. Scenario no.1 I take my young dog that has no idea what we are looking for walking in the woods to tree an easy coon. But before we come to the easy coon the pup runs into a skunk and thinks this is great and proceeds to kill it. Now what do you do correct the pup, praise it, or do nothing? In this situation no matter what you do it is a set back. Yes it can be overcome but is a setback nonetheless. Scenario no.2 I expose the pup to the game I want, be it caged coon, dead coon, or coonhide. Get the pup excited on this and praise it.( By the way I do agree that this should be done no more than 2-3 times) Now make a drag with scent alone and put some scent on a tree, the pup should be able to run this to the tree and tree on it, even if you need to help get it excited on the tree the first time. After 2-3 times it should be running and treeing on the scent with no coaxing. Now it is ready to take to the woods and tree an easy coon, but if it runs across a skunk first, an appropriate correction can be made and we have forward progress with no setback because the pup already knows that coon are a good thing. From here on out, you hunt the hair of the dog giving the appropriate praise and corrections as needed. And as to your shooting pool question, I make my living training all types of hounds, retrievers, and pointers and I have 30 years experience training dogs. As for Ben Lilly I am sure he would have been extra careful to make sure that his young dogs had as few setbacks as possible because he couldn't afford not to.

[cecil j.]

[MN Mad Dog]

[cecil j.]

[Redneck]

my thought on this given subject get her to where she obeys sit come stay etc when she has these down to a tee then move on to the next step house cats ,then when she get that concept down bigger and better things coons lions bears hogs etc no matter whaT ALWAYS REWARD HER FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR not for bad firm but not over whelming to where you scare her and make her cower so on . but most of all let her be a puppy she will have a life time to prove her self to you and all that hunt with you ....