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BAYDOGG wrote:A sugestion... train or find a dog that will TREE a cat and run your dogs one at a time with it.

That is much easier said than done.

From what I've seen in our area, the cats would rather catch/bayup than tree. Don't know why but it's just what they do. Then as soon as you think you'll never see one in a tree, one will tree. I know it's very similiar if you cross over West from us and hunt MN.

I can load up the dogs, drive an hour or two E/NE and my chances go up quite a bit to tree one. Don't know why, it doesn't make sense but it's just what I've seen. Same dogs, same terrain, same snow, different outcome.

I agree Nolte.


I have seen more cats stop on the ground then climb a tree in my limited experience. One would think if they climb it would save them some hassle of fighting some dumb mutts, but maybe they want revenge.

I'm going to be running bobcats in SD this year, but the people I have talked to say that treeing bobcats here is very difficult. The huge lion population here isn't helping any.