My bluetick treed her 1st coon on her very own last night. She was very confident that the coon was up there. The area was real thick with alot of scrub oaks. anyway, she was biting limbs in half and just causing all kinds of commotion but barking the whole time. She did a a very great job. by the time we were finished she had a wide open area around the tree with small trees and limbs just laying around. I didnt want to try and break her from that considering it was her 1st time to tree on her own and i didnt want her to see anything negative out of me. She was just really over excited and confident the coon was up there. Is it okay for her to be like that? Should i just let her keep doing it so that she doesnt think she is doing anything wrong as far as her hunting goes?

Since I'm only a pleasure hunter I take the motto of "if it doesn't bother me, who cares?" I could personally care less if my dog eats the tree.

I saw an ad for selling a dog; the guy didn't want him because after it treed a coon and the man walked into eyesight the dog would lay down and be quiet. Dog bawled loud on tree until the guy got there. He hated that habit. Myself? I would be happy as heck if my dog shut up once I was at the tree. To each his own.

My dog does the same thing... Check out the pic below lol. Sounds like you have a pretty lockdown treedog! Theres only a couple negative things that I can see from this and one of them you already stated... it causes commotion around the tree... which could result in a fight if theyre with the wrong dog. Another negative would be that if your dog is chewing saplings off and at the same time acting nuts around the tree, theres a good chance your dog, or another dog could jump up and land on one of those sharp trees.


I really don't think there's much you can do about it. most dogs just do it out of pure frustration i believe. i just tell mine to stop it and get on the tree when she starts. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't lol!

some guys consider that a fault, other guys dont mind it. myself, as long as they tree bark enough to be called treed, and bark enough so the 2 minute night hunt rule dont get them, and noone fusses over them moving, i dont care what they chew down.

my buddies dog i been hunting is a chewer. same thing, if he is on a good hot track, he is like a brush hog. ive seen him tear apart some pretty decint sized stuff...if theres nothing around ive seen him rip bark off trees if he can. ive noticed he dont do it much at all with other dogs on the tree...and ive yet to see him chew at a slick tree...not that he shows many slicks...im an honest guy...ive seen a slick tree here and there...and know when he "picks a tree" and isnt confident in it(usually a den but not much or any track ran..just picks it because he hunted a long time and didnt find anything better usually) in those times..he wont chew it seems..

i always tell the judge before the hunt that hes a chewer and might get quiet on the tree...if your close you can hear him whine and tearing stuff up...and ive yet to see him go 2 minutes without barking on a tree....he did mess me up at the last hunt...he hit the tree hot off the track...he must saw it climb because he only threw 2 or 3 muffled tree barks..i instantly thought he was in a hole and wasnt going to tree him on a hole...hes semi-broke off holes and i rather take 2nd than a minus for him leaving the hole...i then heard a whine..that whine either meant chewing or track bark...i shoulda knew he was chewing because of the tree barks...the other kids dog let out a bawl and he treed it...i was jacked...my dog started hammering..then went back to chewing..then hammered some more..then that kids dog finally tree barked..

that kids dog did something real odd though...it DUG while it was at the tree...never saw that in my life...that screwed him on a slick tree...he tried finding the coon in another tree(some vines..could have climbed out..) the judge told him flat out..look your dog dug all around that tree...not those other trees! when it was tied back it dug a big ole pit too...

My ol bluetick does the same thing hes done it since he was just a big pup and now hes 4. It dont bother me a bit, but he almost got choked one nite because he had a twig stuck in the roof of his moth but i pulled it out and he went back to hammerin the tree

Aight cool. Yeah she was definitely sure that the coon was up there. It was definitely a hot track cause i saw the coon across this big pond with my light and it took off but she ran the track bawlin and eventually treed. I was really shocked at the size of the limbs she could just bite in half in one bite. but she treed hard barking more than the chewing. I could see why being so aggressive might make her want to jump on another dogs around her. If she will jump on an innocent limp then why wouldnt she jump on another dog. But ill tell you this... she wont show her ##*%* by jumpin on another dog but ONE time. Ill break that sht up for sure. But overall i think she is going to end up being really good.

My dog eats trees hes chewed completely through a two inch grapvine numerous times. it doesn't realy bother me as long as hes hard about barking at the tree to, but somtimes he spends more time chewing then barking. But anyway I was hunting with an old timer two nights ago who told me he had to pay restitution for a tree his dogs had destroyed of 500 dollars, so if you hunt somwhere were they love there trees this could happen i guess to you too. other then that i woulnd't worry about it.

excessive chewing at trees wears their teeth. this can cause serious dental and health trouble as they get older

no doubt but i don't believe i can talk my dog into brushing flossing and babying his teeth so i guess ill just have to live with it.

my redbone does the same thing and it just shows me that she wants the coon that much more

walkersbeauandbelle ADDED A GOOD POINT ABOUT THIS CAUSING TROUBLE WITH OTHER DOGS. I HAVE A FEMALE BLACK AND TAN THAT DOES THE SAME THING ALONG WITH RUNNING UP THE TREE AND TREE CLIMBING IF POSSIBLE. THE WALKER MALE I HUNT HER WITH DOESNT SEEM TO MIND. HE JUST STAYS TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TREE FROM HER. BUT I AM HESITANT TO HUNT HER WITH OTHER DOGS ESPECIALLY ANOTHER FEMALE. ITS ALSO A LITTLE WHILE BETWEEN TREE BARKS WHEN SHE IS REAL FIRED UP. BUT SHE IS ALL COONDOG SO IT REALLY DOESNT BOTHER ME.

my female is bad about chewing me myself i dont care one bit about her chewing and its been my observation that if bell is chewing the tree or anything around that tree there is a coon up there and if she lost all her teeth oh well she will have to gumm the tree ha ha ha ha lol

a dog that chews the tree is not thinking about leaving it. there is nothing you will ever do to stop a dog from chewing. i have had to pay for trees in a mans yard that were stripped of the bark. i have seen people shock dogs, put redman chewing tobacco in the dogs mouth and even seen their k-nine teeth cut off. and they will not stop. you can make a dog worse if you pet them up alot on the tree. dogs that chew are just too excited already and do not need to be encouraged to tree. the only real problem is when the dog shuts up for a long period when they are chewing vines and such. i have never known of a dog to start a fight by chewing, jumping yes, many times. both can be bred into the dog or caused by over working them up on the tree.how hard a dog trees should be in the breeding , i don't pet any dog on the tree once it starts to treeing as a young dog. i pet them after i pull them and walk them away from the tree. some will chew if they are left treed for a long time. i've seen em start digging at the base of the tree too. there is alot i don't know, this is just what i have seen over the years. some one else may consider it a fault , i don't if it does not shut up for long periods of time while it is nawing on some wood.the ones that do i have never been able to or seen them broke of doing it..but some one eles may know a sure fire cure for it..................as long as one can still tree talk with a mouth full of wood its not gonna bother me. there is much worse a dog can do at the tree then chew on it some...................TC