RTWojo wrote:
I went last night with my uncle to run the dogs and after a couple hours they finally treed and were at the tree for more than a half hour before I got there to get the dogs.
So I praised the dogs and leashed them up and made my way back to the truck put them in their box and went home for the night.
Is there anything we can do to not ruin the dogs from pulling them off trees in the off season? My uncle has never ran dogs before killing season and is afraid the dogs won't want to hunt if we keep pulling them off trees and they don't get a taste of coon every time out until kill season starts.
You do realize in Comp. Hunts there is no killing of the coon????? You pull them off the tree and turn out again and go tree another. Doesn't effect a dog pulling off tree. Take your Uncle to a comp hunt if he thinks differently.
Many dogs are trained in the off seasons with no coon shots out. You don't need to shoot out coons to make a coon dog.
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