Dog adjusting to new owner

[walkerblacktan]

I got a new dog around a week ago. Supposed to be a finished dog. Ive taken him out 3 times, he hasnt done anything really. Put him on the rack to see if he would rig and didnt get a peep out of him. Just wondering if maybe he just needs time to adjust to me and my other dogs. He seems to like me and other dogs, but maybe he isnt fully comfortable yet?

[SASS]

From my experience some dogs do need time to bond and get comfortable with a new owner and environment and some dogs don't. Pet him up a little when you feed so you can start to build a little bond with him and the more he runs with your other dogs the better. After doing those things you should know what you have pretty soon.

[Beastmode]

Did you get him on a trial period or did you outright buy him? I bought a dog this year and took him out the first day I had him and he hunted. I ave seen dogs that were supposed to be finished and they wouldn’t leave the truck. I have a hard time buying a dog without it being on a trial period or buying under a tree. Have you for sure cut a track of something he runs?


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[walkerblacktan]

Gut said he would buy him back if he didnt work, or if i decided to sell him he would buy him back. I dont even know if ive driven over a good enough track. Hes spent 8 to 10 hrs on the rig, over the few times ive him out. My bait hasnt been hit since i got him around a week ago, its been getting into the mid 90s, and ive noticed it slows way down when it heats up like this (and no i dont hunt them in this heat, only early mornings before it gets hot).

[1bludawg]

Not trying to be a smart ass but if he told you that he probably won't work for you.

[ALEX]

Some food for thought....I've got two of my hounds out of state with an outfitter being hunted while I am busy working a seasonal job. I took them down there in January after I had been hunting them the first part of the season. Of the two, one adjusted and started going to work with this man's pack after only a week or two. However, my other hound didn't do a single thing for nearly three months. He wouldn't hunt for this man or with his hounds AT ALL. When I was hunting him earlier in the season and last season, I knew what he could and couldn't do and what he needed to become better. He was very well started when I took him down to this outfitter.

When early April rolled around, this hound of mine who had been making a flat liar out of me suddenly started to go to work and hunt with outfitter's pack of hounds. It was a case of the quintessential "flip of the switch" happening overnight. From that time to now, hes been doing what I expected him to do when he's taken out and he has actually been starting most of the tracks that this guides pack comes across when they are trailable.

The point is...it can and does take some hounds A VERY LONG TIME to adjust, accept, and be willing to hunt for someone else, with their hounds, and do it in that persons style of hunting. Some dogs are machine like and will hunt for anyone, with anything, any time and anywhere. Some adjust after a short period of a few days to a few weeks. Others take months. And I would bet there's some out there that really are a one person dog and will never work for anyone who they don't know as their longtime owner or as the person who raised them. Each hound will react as an individual when they're shifted into the hands of a new person and put in with that person's dogs.

But, I also have an idea that if the hound you just bought has never had another owner before that he may be sort of shell shocked even if he doesn't show it, seems friendly and is stable, mentally. It may be a first for him, so the adjustment may take longer before he'll hunt for you. I also wonder if hounds can be conditioned to adjust to new owners, their hounds, and their ways of hunting. So that if a hound is sold, farmed out among friends, or passed around and hunted/handled by a lot of different people and with a lot of different dogs that they will become calloused to change and essentially become more "machine like" with less sensitivity when put into a new environment. Equating to a hound that'll hunt for anyone, anytime, and anywhere.

I hope this helps.

[walkerblacktan]

This dog wasnt a one owner dog when i got him. The guy i got him from actually bought him between 2 to 3 yrs ago. He told me it took this dog a week or 2 to come around for him, but since hes had him his friend has hunted this dog also. He showed me video of this dog walking bears. Im fairly confident this guy isnt full of shit, he has stayed in touch with me, and this dog isnt the only one he sold, he has actually downsized his pack by about 4 dogs due to a job change taking him out of state.

[walkerblacktan]

Just talked to a buddy about this. He said he got a redbone female lion dog a few yrs ago, said for around a month she wouldnt do anything, besides run a couple deer, when she was supposed to be a finished, trash broke dog. He said one day he was filling his bear bait letting the dogs wander around, and next thing he knew she was opening a couple hundred yards away, thought she was running deer again. She barked treed so he walked in to her and there was a lion above her. He said after that lion she didnt miss a beat again and turned out to be exactly what he was told.

[walkerblacktan]

Im trying to not worry about until my bait is hit again, and i know there is a good 4 to 6hr old track. Then ill judge him based on that, i think that might be the way to go.

[Bear hounder]

Im trying to not worry about until my bait is hit again, and i know there is a good 4 to 6hr old track. Then ill judge him based on that, i think that might be the way to go.

I had a a good freind of mine who bought a dog from a man in Michigan it was a male blue tick he bought the dog as a finished bear pack dog he brought it home and put it on fresh bear track and the dog would not run a bear track but would cower down to the ground like he was scared so he called the guy back told him this dog would not run a track so the fellow said he would buy the dog back if that was what he wanted to do and then the seller said instead of bringing that dog back to me I'll send you his sister and you hunt them together and see and if that don't work then bring him back and I'll give your money back so they brought the sister up from Michigan and that dog turned into everything that the man said buy himself or with his sister and in a couple weeks or so he was a main part of the pack that would pack in to the race from any distance as long as you could get the truck within hearing distance of the Chase he was indeed a great bear dog but the reson the man that sold him was willing to buy him back was because he knew the value of the dog he sold that is why u never buy a dog that you did not hunt with personally because you might do things differently your dogs in your pack might treat him different than his place in his pack he has to find his spot in the new pack and some time that take time but when you know for shure what you have bought then it gives you the confedence to give the dog some more time to ajust because you know beyond a dought what he is I always tie a knew dog close to my house so they get to know me and I tie them close with the hounds that I'm planning on running them with and give them time together before I ever hunt them together it is a huge thing to some dog's to throw them into a working environment were they don't know anybody or what is expected of them .other dogs will pike into any race with any dogs but if you hunted the dog before all the big changes of home owner and new pack you can follow threw with turning the switch back on in your dog that was turned of temporary off and yes your absolutely right you don't got a thing to worry about until you get some fresh tracks to put him down on and you also have know that some people don't want to kill there own medeoker Luke warm dogs so they sell them as finished bear dogs and that word finished to a crooked man means he is finished with that dog so I hope that is not the case and to me it sounds like the man was ready to give back the money and take the dog back so whatever the problem he is standing behind his end of the deal sounds like a stand up guy to me hope your dog turns out for you take care keep looking up

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