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Got a Cameron dog that when he is on a hot streak he is a awesome dog but then there are times that he is just flat dumb like he don't know what he is doin but
Then out of the blue it's like he flips a switch and is back to knowing it all and just is a awesome dog Anyone had a dog do that if so how did u handle it

I've got a couple dogs that I've thought had some good streaks for a while, then they seemed to backslide completely. The dogs would follow a trail like champs, then the next week, they seemed to act like idiots and chased everything they weren't supposed to chase, or they couldn't follow a track I thought they should. It puzzled me at the time...still does a little. I think the biggest problem wasn't with my dogs, though. I think it was with me. I think I was misreading the conditions in which they were trailing...maybe it was something very subtle. Maybe there was too much heat or sun on a track they couldn't take. Maybe the dogs were a little under the weather, themselves, and I couldn't see it. A track older than what I thought it was...too much wind. Maybe during the times when I thought they were shining like super stars, the track was much more fresh than I thought and the trailing conditions were as close to perfect as possible, so it seemed to make them look like they were doing better. The factors that go into trailing can be almost limitless. It's far more likely that my dogs were on hot or cold streaks, but rather I misinterpreted what was going on and how the dogs were performing. My point is that I have as much to learn as the dogs...actually more...a lot more.

Ken

Keneth, Thats a good honest interpretation of young dogs trailing and hitting different stages of tracks.

I have had several dogs from all different breedings start off real nice but then at the 2 yr old mark they started slipping up. I sold a couple for cheap and after a little while I got reports of those dogs just pounding the hell out of tracks and are still rock stars. So now I just keep hunting those 2 yr old dogs and let them work out their kinks. I think of it as when I was younger and was slippin up. You just have to work out of that stage and hunt harder. lol

Lil Joes BigGame hounds wrote:Keneth, Thats a good honest interpretation of young dogs trailing and hitting different stages of tracks.

I have had several dogs from all different breedings start off real nice but then at the 2 yr old mark they started slipping up. I sold a couple for cheap and after a little while I got reports of those dogs just pounding the hell out of tracks and are still rock stars. So now I just keep hunting those 2 yr old dogs and let them work out their kinks. I think of it as when I was younger and was slippin up. You just have to work out of that stage and hunt harder. lol

Joe told you just what a lot of them are like.. however there are some that will flat go stale and stupid if they are not hunted regular..
back in the 90's when I was working at Raton and working 8 days straight I had to miss hunting for 3 trips home one female I had (thought she was pretty good)-- she went stale on me and it took a full week of hunting to get her head on straight.. That was when she was 5-- I gave her away... the fellow I gave her to would hunt about once a week and she thrived on that!
get them past the 2 year stupids and see how they level out!