CHAPTER III. 



TRAINING THE HUNTING DOG. 



TN traininii; liounds, one should remember that 

 they Avill always haye a hobby for the first 

 !:iame they learn to lumt; therefore, we 

 sliouhl be careful to start them first at the 

 right kind as for instance : If 3^ou desire to haye 

 an all around hound that y ill hunt coon, fox and 

 rabbit and to hunt each game well, and in order 

 to succeed you must break him in on coon first, 

 then when he knows the ''A, B, C,'' of Mr. Coon, 

 you can break him on foxes and then on rabbits 

 in the day time and wlien you Ayill hunt coon he 

 will pay no attention to the fox or rabbit eyen if 

 he would see one in front of him, proyiding there 

 are coons in that bush. 



If you desire to haye a true deer hound, 

 train him first on deer, then on foxes, but you 

 must in all cases train them well on one kind 

 before you start on another ; therefore, a hound 

 thus trained Ayill always hunt deer in preference 

 to fox. The same would exist if the dog was first 

 trained on the fox. 



Some people claim that it takes from three 

 to fiye years to train a hound right. Well, this is 



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