wvhunter5 wrote:
I have a 2yr old I didn't get to hunt last year do to medical reasons. He is crazy over caged coon but I don't have an old dog to hunt him with. When i take him out he hits track but moves very slow and gets hung up in tree tops for a long time any ideas
another dog will not teach him to move tracks any faster alone. all that happens is the young dog learns to lift its head and depend on the more experianced dog to figure out the lose and then him follow. the only thing a caged coon, a released coon or hunting with another dog does is expose the pup or young dog to coon and make them want a coon bad enough to try and track it and try and tree it. once they will try they should be hunted alone.
he has to learn the track sense on his own to be able to do it on his own.
just because a dog can run and tree an easy coon or a released coon does not mean its gonna run a coon in the timber the same way. these coon on thier own turf do not run and climb like housecats. he is in the real world of coonhunting now. the only way he will learn to figure out the math is to let him keep trying. young dogs do not finish all tracks they try to move. he has to learn the trailing, drifting and moving out part of tracking by his self. he will get better and better and finish more and more tracks with enough woods time and experiance. its gonna take patience on your part. but in the long run you hopefully have a dog that can finish and tree any coon he gets after and be consistant doing it. dogs are born with tracking instincts, but they have to learn track sense. you could put him in easy spots and let him do it on easier terrain and easier coon, but sooner or later he is gonna have to work the rougher spots and learn the track sense for those harder math problems..