varowdywalker wrote:
ever took her alone? How does she act over a coon?
Yes I try to take her alone at least once a week, just to listen to the owls hoot...haha
She goes and stays gone sometimes for 10 minutes, not sure what she's doin, but I consider it good that she isn't on top of me...And whenever I do see her in the light she is smellin around hunting, not just playing...
She has only seen 3 coons in her life...
Coon #1....
10 months old, let her and an old dog find a coon in a cage, old dog went absolutely crazy, she got in and barked with old dog pretty good, put her up....
Coon #2....
3 weeks ago, 15 months old... Let her find caged coon in a feild on her own...She smelled it and started running circles around the cage whining and yipping a bit, I got to her and fired her up on it some patting her and telling her to talk to it and what not...Here is the deal though, I wouldn't have considered her 100% fired up, just a little excited, but I tied her back and released the coon in the big field, and when she saw it running away she almost broke her neck trying to get to it. I turned her right behind it and she barked every breath behind it until it treed then she was lost, she just wondered around trying to find the track...She couldn't figure out that it went up the tree, she did smell up the tree a couple of times, so I chained her to it, and tried to pat her up it, and she checked it out but couldn't convince herself it could climb a tree...
Coon #3
3 days after Coon #2
Cut her for the third night in a row 1 on 1 with 5 year old Walker that has probably had 100 coons treed in the last 3 years, no junk at all...She went with him to start with, came back in about 2 minutes, He struck, she ran to him like a bullet and opened tracking with him in about 15 seconds, and was open more than him on the track...But when he rolled over treed, she shut up, then I seen her comming in on the way to the tree, she was all excited and led us to the tree... she was smelling around the tree when we got there, but she lost interest in the tree real fast, I ties her at it anyway and petted the male dog and told him what a good job he had done and everything, and let her just watch me....They shot the coon, and it walked down the tree and hit the ground running, she went nuts, Everyone was yelling don't turn that pup loose, but she was nuts, and she is a grown up, so I let her loose...She was first to find the coon on the ground, and she just mostly bayed, while the old dog killed it...Once the coon was dead, she was over it completely...
Other things that have happened the last two weeks are:
*Couple of 200 yard deer chases, she has came off of on her own
*One Possum she struck and trailed completely on her own, about 200 yards, killed on bay by another dog before I got there...
*Couple of other times she trailed with the other dog she was with...