How to get a top-notch coonhound on the first try.
August 2005 Outdoor Life
If you don’t have ideal training grounds (where young hounds can find a coon every time out), call Shaffer at 304-965-6824.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Our Biggest Mistakes
 | We take a pup hunting without first introducing it to trailing and treeing in the woods with a caged coon. |
| Without any game introduction, the confused pup hangs around us, so we “whip it away from the light,” shouting, “Get out and hunt” and creating new fears of both us and the woods. |
| We hope our old hounds will do the training for us. Truth is, the dumbest pup is a genius at copying all of an old dog’s faults. Furthermore, unless we leave that old dog at home at least once every three or four hunts, the pup never gains the independence needed to become a top-notch coonhound. |
