new hound puppy

[jcbhuntandrun]

just got a 7 week old blue-tick/bloodhound lion puppy. never trained a lion hound before. any info/insight appreciated. also would like a training book recommendation. thanks in advance for any info

 

[slick]

Edited: Gave poor advice.

 

[Andy Dana]

Find a snow track and walk it down with the pup on lead....doing this you will learn a lot yourself...if and when it appears your dog really wants to go and the track appears to be jumped(surprised and moving out) let her go and try to keep up....if things peter out gather up the dog and keep after it.....repeat as often as needed
For the most part you have to put the dog on a runnable track but knowing one is not always that simple....experience sorts that out.

I would discourage using domestic cat as a training tool..there are legalities involved and it is not necessary.. hounds are track driven it is usually not that difficult to get them to take a track.....you don't train a hound cept basic manners and come too...you hunt a hound. There is a real good possibility your pup would take a track tomorrow no help from you.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

You can probably get a lot more info on http://biggamehoundsmen.com/forum/ it's a hound hunting specific hunting forum, although some of the guys on there aren't nearly as cool as most of the Rokslide crew.

Where are you Located? I know a few other houndsmen in CO,WY and MT

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[ttrains]

As far as books go, google "Walk with Wick", its based on coonhunting, but the books are good in my opinion. In my experience (all coonhunting), ideally you could find someone else to go with that already has hounds when your pup is old enough. I've got pups started without hunting them with older dogs, but is a lot harder. I've hunted with guys in the past that hunted coons in the spring/summer and went back to lions in the winter. I'm not sure if it's still around, but I used to get a monthly magazine called "Full Cry", that might be of interest to you, primarily coon/big game hunting with hounds/curs. Good luck!

 

[Craig Van Arsdale]

Can you actually let one hound loose on a lion safely?

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

Can you actually let one hound loose on lion safely?

Yes but you need to pay attention to the track. Big mature tom track NO! but a small to average track yes. also depends on the dog. My brother in-law turns out his main dog solo all the time. Most cats don't want anything to do with a dog. The cats you really have to watch out for are the ones that live near the outskirts of city's. Like the Colorado front range for example. The cats that live in those fringe areas feed on dogs regularly and have less fear of dogs. I have a buddy that turned loose on a cat on the front range west of Castle Rock. big tom track. gps showed treed and only took him 15 minutes to get to the tree and the cat had killed both of the dogs he turned out. Turned out a year later in the same area and lost another dog that had split off from the pack on a separate track that had crossed the one he had turned out on. the pack treed one cat but the single dog that broke off got ate. So it kind of depends on the situation. You can do a lot with two dogs but you can do with one if the tracks looks good.

One dog is really good for bobcats


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