Train your own.

[Warner5]

For those of you out there training your dogs from start to finish. My hats off to you.

When it gets tough keep at it, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Nothing beats the feeling of looking into the rear view mirror and seeing dogs trained up by their owner.

Happy holiday's & Good hunting. John.

[U.R.E.]

Man that buys trained hound= Man that owns a hound.

Man that trains his own hound= houndsman.

[dawger]

I've never thought of it in those terms before. I just was never happy with a older dog I've bought from someone else.

[runnin akita]

I am sure going to give it hell! Wish a newbie luck. You got to start somewhere.

[dwalton]

Depending on what stage you are in your hound hunting it relates to your ability to train a hound. We all start somewhere. The key is where do we stop. I don't think any of us know as much as we think we know no matter how much experience we have. There is always room to learn. Dewey

[bearhunter611]

Very true, nothings more rewarding then raising a pack of hounds that do the job for you and catch game. I can understand falling on hard times and having to buy a finished hound, just wont see me doing that!! Ill stick it out with what i have till i get something i want. It actually bugs me when guys buy a pack of hounds that'll catch game and brag about them like they made em the hounds they are. The hounds might be outstanding, but a finished dog is gonna do what it's gonna do long as one puts it on game. I might not have the coldest nosed or fastest dogs out there, but they get the job done and when they do i'm sure proud of em!!

[Jlhoutfitters]

couldnt agree more nothing better than seeing a dog have that light bulb moment and everything clicks. i challenged myself to get a pure blood hound to hunt track and tree and the trailing was nothing he had that from 12 weeks old but i still remember the day he figured out it was in a tree at the end of a trail, over a year latter, it was a proud moment eventhough he aint as fast as some of the other dogs and not as open mouthed all the time he is my favorite hound. In my eyes a dog has the want to hunt or it dont and basic obediant training for the first yr is more important than anything sure makes a differance in the hunt when the dog works with you instead of for itself.

[icehole]

Thanks needed the motivation. I have been walking ridges, doing drags, reading books. Thinking about suck starten a revolver with the results im seein.

[sheimer]

Thinking about suck starten a revolver with the results im seein.

That's funny.

There's 2 ways to look at the spot your in.....

1. It's always darkest right before the dawn.
2. Know when your beat.

You have a decision to make.........Wait for daylight or end it before it gets worse. I'd choose to wait for daylight. Hang in there.

Scott

[groaners]

I started from scratch for every one of my dogs, some turned out great, some okay, and one was completely worthless (that I think was the individual dog's fault, but you need to weed through sorry dogs to get to the good ones!) I think it's far more rewarding as a hunter to see your own dogs, raised from pups, trained by you and your older dogs with no outside help, catching critters on their own. To me there is a much stronger bond with a dog you've trained by yourself.