Reuben
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Originally posted by Purple12
The one I had started treeing cats and possums at just a baby a few months old, then took him with some finished dogs one night they treed two singles, he ran and treed with em and next time I took him by himself he treed a coon and was like he made a coondog that night he was straight on coons till he died, and there was no training whatsoever with this one I was as green as he was.
These types are the ones that need to be bred over and over again and again but only if their pedigree has more of the same scattered throughout a pedigree that also has above average hunting dogs…breeding this way would probably produce 3,000 above average dogs in 10,000 and possibly higher instead of 1 in 10,000…what was said of 1 in 10,000 is a figure of speech indicating the lack of top quality hunting pups and dogs produced today…
I reckon the questions we need to ask ourselves is why?
Once we have a clear vision on what it takes to improve our breeding programs…maybe then we can produce better dogs…
I think many times folks will hunt a dog 300 nights a year to make it a winning hound…and then that dog will be bred many times…and the buyers of the pups want to hunt 40 times a year and can not figure out why his pup isn’t working out…or the handler of the stud dog is a great trainer of hounds and can make an average dog a winner and the majority of the pup buyers are average trainers…and they are wondering why their dog isn't what it should be…
Some breeders are constantly changing their breeding program chasing the latest winners and the pedigree becomes an open pedigree and the pups produced will be scatterbred…we should breed to natural hunting dogs…
For your pup and you being green your pup turned out to be a great hound so you did a good job in making your hound into what you said was a great hound…anither owner could of just as easily ruined the pup…
We can go on and on as to why dogs make it or not just as we can go on with breeding programs…breed to natural hounds as often as possible…
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