TRAINING THE COON DOG. • 53 



taken out to get liim to understand running 

 them, and to learn their tricks and to tree and 

 stay treed. They may do this in a reasonably 

 short time with another older, well trained dog 

 to show them how to find the tree and keep 

 them out there, but then take him out by himself 

 and when Mr. 'Coon goes in the creek or around 

 an old pond or bog your young dog lacks ex- 

 perience and a year's work or more. 



Then there is the rabbit which he must be 

 broken not to run, and a dog can always find 

 their tracks before he can a 'coon. Now here is 

 where the right kind of judgment must be used, 

 as all dogs cannot be handled alike, and one 

 may spoil a pup in trying to break him from 

 rabbits. So taking everything into considera- 

 tion, it is worth far more to train a dog for a 

 first class -coon dog than most people consider, 

 — what it requires to train a dog, and what he 

 should be worth when properly broken. 



Of course, it is not so much work to train 

 a dog to run fox, as there is generally a lot of 

 fox dogs one can turn in with, and that way 

 get a young dog started and he will take to 

 running them naturally." 



I think a good dog/ either a fox hound, or 

 one that has never run foxes, makes the best 

 dog, altho curs or 'coon dogs are not to be kicked 

 out, that is if they are good, true hunters. I 



