Message #59081

[barlow]

Seems like most coon dogs and big-game dogs too, if left to their own devices from puppy hood, would much rather run deer and mice than anything else

I guess that would depend on what you call a big game dog. Seen an awful lot of dogs sold as big game dogs who were good at it . . but didn't come from that type of breeding. There is a difference between a dog doing something . . and generations of selective breeding.