skeets wrote:
in my opinion back tracking and treeing up trees with no coons in the tree is bred into a dog,i would say somewere in that dogs background there was another dog did the same thing.ive never been able to break a dog from it,but iam more of a hunter then a trainer.
Me too.
The ones I thought backytracked never made a tree. LOL the track just fizzled out before they ever treed.
Only two ways you could ever be certain of the backtracking fool is 1) you happened to see a coon coming to a cornpile in a field while deer hunting and go get a dog OR 2) have a GPS collar on the coons. LOL even if you did know for sure which way the coon was going , how would you go about correct it? Shock it? Grab it by the collar and turn it around? Seriously. Ain't no way to cure that kind of a fault.
I have been amaized all my life on how a dog hits a track and goes the right way 90% of the time. That 10% of the time they get it figured /straightened out in a hundred feet or so.
As far as training by itself, if you train a pup with junk you will get junk. If you hunt a pup with a dang good dog you life will be made so much easier. JMO.