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« on: November 17, 2012, 10:52:45 am » |
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Ok let's say u have a young pup and u would really like a cold nosed dog in ur pack. Ok could you start the pup saying figuratively at a higher level than what u usually start em at. I guess just making them work harder so they would be stronger in the cold nose category. I know pups have a short attention span and all and it takes longer to straighten out a cold track. BUt is it at all possible??
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jdt
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2012, 11:02:50 am » |
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the short answer - no they will have the nose their momma and daddy give them .
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2012, 11:09:09 am » |
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the short answer - no they will have the nose their momma and daddy give them .
Yes, BUT you can really bring out the potential in a dog especially track hunting traits by hunting them a certain way. Making a track dog isnt necessarily making em colder nosed as it is making them more track focused in my opinion. |
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chestonmcdowell
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2012, 11:10:32 am » |
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How would u bring out the potential
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2012, 11:35:27 am » |
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Cold nosed dogs are born not made. They also have to be born with the brain to process the faint information the nose recieves and translate it into moving the track. A true cold nosed track dog can move a cold track like most dogs move a good track and a good track like a red hot track. Lots of hunting lets them learn and fine tune what they were born with.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2012, 12:08:08 pm » |
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Cold nose is breed into the dog, you can improve on it by working them on tough tracks an not letting them always get on hot tracks , if you see a hog cross the road wait awhile before letting the dog out on him make them use there nose an brain to get it worked out
Your prolly goin to wanna get a hound for this ability of track mined cur dogs are more wanting to catch up to the game they might even skip the track an wind a little as they are work an a hound is more likely gonna stick to the colder tracks step by step
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2012, 12:32:06 pm » |
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cur dogs for the most part are heads up hunters , they do have a nose on them but don't use it enough on colder tracks . YOU CAN work with the dogs and have them ol curs grubbing out older tracks like a hound . i started out by just laying drags of various ages and working the dogs into it and incurageing the dogs to FIND EM wich is the command i use when turning out to hunt . i stopped working and testing my catahoula's on two hour old tracks . and tested the theory and principles of my traing method on wild hog tracks that i knew the age on by wittnessing the hogs earlier in the day . this is actually no differant than training a cur dog to work as a blood dog on old tracks . just lay drags and work the dogs on it and by you knowing where the trail is , if the dogs stray from the track heal them up and put them back on it and encourage them to FIND EM . it works for me and many others no reason why you can't do the same . it's just encourageing the dog to youse it's genetic inheritance and change it's style of hunt .
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2012, 12:36:24 pm » |
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on another note i have seen catahoula's pick up and find 12 hour old blood trails and find the deer . just takes work .
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jdt
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2012, 07:29:34 pm » |
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Cold nosed dogs are born not made. They also have to be born with the brain to process the faint information the nose recieves and translate it into moving the track. A true cold nosed track dog can move a cold track like most dogs move a good track and a good track like a red hot track. Lots of hunting lets them learn and fine tune what they were born with.
and thats the less short answer  |
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