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Originally posted by MOcoondogs
My opinion of well started would be a young dog that trees 50-75% of the nights I take it hunting. The occasional possum but no other non climbing game. Slick trees would be 75% or less depending on the time of year. Hunting range wouldn't be factored in at this point as much due to the consistency of finding a track and treeing. This is what I would call a "well started dog". It's a notch above lightly started and below finished. Hope that this fits the question

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Dan

DaL NH yeah a lot of people feel that way too. But there are others who bring them to me and have it worked out of them to make a finished hound. I have gotten frustrated a time or too also after the dog was past a certain age and I gave up on them as well. And some dogs are just going to slick tree too much.

To me a well started dog is already broke from off game, and treeing on its own with 75% to 80% accuracy. I’ll tolerate a few slicks & dens here & there. Even the best hound is gonna slick at some point. It’s more important to me to understand the why the dog is throwing its head up on a slick. Well started to me means they probably still got some puppy stuff to work out, but will tree coons. Maybe they ain’t a lock down, stay put & see ya when you get here tree dog yet, or maybe they still struggle on a track that’s bad cold or way too hot. Could be they struggle in bad weather, rough terrain or in the water. My point is a well started dog is one that’s got it figured out what they are out there to do & does most of it well but maybe still growing into their nose & need some fine tuning in one area or another. A well started dog to me is only about 60-120 nights of hard hunting away from a finished hound.

To me a well started dog is already broke from off game, and treeing on its own with 75% to 80% accuracy. I’ll tolerate a few slicks & dens here & there. Even the best hound is gonna slick at some point. It’s more important to me to understand the why the dog is throwing its head up on a slick. Well started to me means they probably still got some puppy stuff to work out, but will tree coons. Maybe they ain’t a lock down, stay put & see ya when you get here tree dog yet, or maybe they still struggle on a track that’s bad cold or way too hot. Could be they struggle in bad weather, rough terrain or in the water. My point is a well started dog is one that’s got it figured out what they are out there to do & does most of it well but maybe still growing into their nose & need some fine tuning in one area or another. A well started dog to me is only about 60-120 nights of hard hunting away from a finished hound.