i walk hunt so i usually walk a pup around a creek and if he trees it wont take me to long to get to him. a lot of times when a pup starts treeing they aint going to be a lockdown tree dog on the first few trees and when i get there ill pet up good. ive heard that petting a dog up to much on the tree will make them tree happy, well i aint ever had that to happen myself. i aint had but very few that was tree happy or false treers but i got them dogs when they was not pups, i always sorta thought the slick tree dogs were bred and somewhere down his line was a slicker somewere, you can run but ya cant hide. lol