Posted by Justin Ryder on 11/25/2005, 11:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Saving this board"
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Don , it goes back to damaging a breed by assuming a dog can do what it hasn't proven it can ... I'm not doubting that your Airdales could kill a coon ..but until they've found their own coon in the wild and proven that they can dispatch them in various situations then you can't actually claim that they can. There simply is no shortcut to making a finished dog or breeding hunting dogs ... you have to actually test a dog in the wild regularly and over a season or two to know what you have . If you claim that your dogs can do something that they've never actually proven they can do then you're gonna get called on it ....maybe not by your customers though. There are a good number of bobcats in my area and although I'd like to think this hound I hunt could tree one ..and I do think he could ..I can't know for sure until he does prove that he can do it consistantly ...which he probably never will but he runs a track like he could catch bobcat . Even though I know the above is true , how many times have we heard folks claim their dogs were running cat because they kept leaving a tree or blank treeing and it had to be a bobcat . How about the hunters who claim their dogs are real gritty on coon ...then I ask how they get the coon out of the tree and they won't answer . When it finally does come out and I bust thier balls about calling a dog gritty that is fighting a shot coon they act like I'm the one that is off the wall and get all pissy. Don , you don't have to actually prove your dog's grit on wild coon if that's not your flavor ...but you don't have to join those coffee shop hunters either , do you ?