Chet McCreary wrote:
Slick treeing is bred into them..Thats how you get the real QUICK. I call them hair trigger treedogs that slick tree a lot.Ive found that most dogs anymore are only 50-65 % accurate.It also comes from not knowning how to correct it ...Dogs that are hunted alone as much as possible. Are usually not as bad as dogs that are only hunted with other dogs.. Slick treeing is also learned from other dogs...Ive see this so many times. Guys sale there old well broke dog. Because they have a real nice young dog.. Come to find out the young dog cant tree a coon and they slick treed like crazy...
Chet, I guess the reason i feel the way i do about dogs is because of my history with dogs. I was hunting before the ACHA started the competition hunts in 1948 so I'm a witness to the gradual changing of the old style Coon dog to the modern day competition dog.
I realize that people my age, and old style Coon Hounds that didn't false tree are no longer important. I know it's amusing but i train pups like it was done over a hundred years ago; but i don't competition hunt, I just Coon Hunt. what i call a Coon dog, won't win a competition hunt, They are too deliberate