smokehunt4140 wrote:
Haha dang I just read that Lol sorry but I really do have a pup doing this I searched pup meeting me off the tree trying to get some help fixing this because never had one do this
I try to fix big problems first so I hardly ever get around to the little problems. Mine meet me off the tree because I hunt by myself with several dogs at a time. I don't even carry the three or four leads necessary to tie dogs near the tree. Plus I look for coons on the way to the tree and find and shoot most of them before I get to the tree. If I did walk to the tree with my eyes down pretending like I was comp hunting and tie the dogs before I looked I'll bet I couldn't resist giving the pup a pat before I ever looked and really ruin them much more than having one meet me (like the original post-25 yards ) and get right back on the tree and tree great. When a dog meets me off the tree I say "Git Back" no pats or praise . Sometimes they get to hanging on the tree and some still meet me. There is as much as a ten second gap in his treeing while this is happening. I even had a Walker female one time that the judge had said "handle your dogs" I said her name and she wheeled off the tree 10 feet away and bounced her front legs on my chest and I missed her collar and in 2 seconds she was back on the tree . In that 5 seconds I was minused because the dog quit the tree, "put her head down and went back on track". LOL Re Read the rules about meeting you off the tree and hold the judges feet to the fire if one ever tries to pull that stuff on you.
Possibly a remedy would be to ask for the scorecard prior to casting and make a note UNDER the area for Questioning and write" My dog may meet me off the tree" . That puts the judge and everybody else on Notice that you are here for real. The Honor Rules way was to "inform the judge" verbally. but in these times the faddedest ink is better than anybodies recollection.
Other than that, if you truly feel not having his clawnails hammered in the bark is as big of a fault in a dog as pulling up short or just flat out lying , then just "correct" H out of it and chain it up. Loose on the tree is not a fault to me but if your Game is the Big Time, then do what you gotta doo.