CHAPTER YII. 



TRAINING — FOR SQUIRRELS AND RABBITS. 



fiEliE is Dij way for trainiug squirrel and 

 coon hounds, wliicli I think is best, writes 

 a Texas Hunter. First, select good 

 health}^ l^ups, raise them up friendly and 

 don't whip or cow them in any Avay until about 

 ten or twelve months old, for if pups get covred 

 Avhen young they will never get over it. When 

 about ten months old, take them out hunting- 

 wit h one or two squirrel dogs and then when the 

 old dogs tree in small trees or any place where 

 you can make them jump out, jumj) the squirrel 

 out and get your pups after them. 



Then if the S(pairrel gets up another tree your 

 pups will bark up the tree at him. Then when 

 they bark well up the tree at the sqiurrel, pet, 

 sick and yell to let the i)ups know that you are 

 trying to help them catch the squirrel. Keep 

 jumping the squirrel out until they catch him, 

 and if the^^ don't catch him and it gets away up 

 a big tree where you can't jump him, then shoot 

 him and they will wool him wlien he falls out. 



Clean the squirrel and give the pups some 

 of it to eat, and you won't be but a few times out 



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