Remember start easy and with progress make it harder. Make sure to work the dogs alone and with another dog if you plan on hunting them together. Really praise them at the tree and make it fun for them. Don’t over do and get them bored with the game. It can be easy to get so excited after seeing them really come alive on this you want to go every day but about once or twice a week is plenty.
Now you are in a position to make a successful hunt with your dog. Find as fresh a cat track as you can and help the dog as much as possible. You will meet with frustration and disappointment many times. Heck if it was easy everybody would do it. LOL! Just stay with it and after that first cat is in the tree, all that training and work will be forgotten and you will be on your way to future success with your cat dogs.
Good luck, have fun, and take a youngster hunting they are the future of our sport.
My best regards,
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MIKE LEONARD
LEONARD’S SOUTHWEST TREEING WALKERS.
TREEING WALKERS BRED ALONG THE LINES
OF NANCE’S LITTLE TOPPER.
Awesome article very much worth reading! Learned a lot!
It was great to read i love the knowledge that you have shared
Good article. I agree with you on grawes tracking scents,used both the coyote and cat . Very good products.
Great article. Learned a lot.
I’m gonna get me a pup for sure now!
Im in for learning more than catching lions. Great story!!
NICE thats very helpfull gonna try some tricks!!!
Great tips, while pups are much less expensive in the long run an experienced dog seems like an investment that could cut off time and agrivation. Thanks
That Grawes is the stuff; my strike dog almost tore me up when I was working pups! he knew I was a cat until he came around the corner and saw me. if a dog could look surprised that was the time.
great article and very helpful tips for someone starting out new in the hound hunting life!!! thanx!!!
great article I used some of that information in a research paper on how to train lion and bobcat hounds my sophomore year of high school. I used it as well on the few young hounds I had and it helped me in catching for bobcat and lion with hounds this year. Thankks
great article I used some of that information in a research paper on how to train lion and bobcat hounds my sophomore year of high school. I used it as well on the few young hounds I had and it helped me in catching my first bobcat and big tom lion with hounds this year. Thankks
Great information, I have two young Plott puppies out of Bear stock however, after reading your training techniques maybe I should get a young walker dog with cat pedigree.
awesome article! i booked marked it! will want to read again, plan on getting into cat hunting once i get to colorado. i know what lines in the redbones and walkers i like, no squat about best lines for cat hunting. i have heard that the sierra line was used for cat throughout the sierra mountians in northern California and Nevada. any suggestions would be helpful