How to Train Hunting Dogs to Hunt Rabbits and Coon

By Walter James

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 19, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453526248

Walter James

Walter James spend most of his time often reliving hunting and writing his first book as “Love and Joy” that was written in 1981. His next book in 2010”How To Train Dogs To Hunt Rabbit and Coons”. He hope that this book will help inspire some of their daily Walk with Christ.

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Copyright © 2010 by Walter James.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2010909172

ISBN:       Hardcover       978-1-4535-2623-1

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CONTENTS

Amazing Joe

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Joe’s Hunting Mate (Dot)

How to Train a Rabbit Dog

How to Train Coon Dogs At Six Months Old to Track Coons

A Coonhound Dog Blue’s And Ring’s Last Hunt

An Angry Raccoon

AMAZING JOE

In the year 1956, Ted was tired of hunting with men and their so-called rabbit dogs. He said to Jack, I want me a young dog. I will train it.

Jack laughed and said, Ted, you don’t know how to train a dog.

Ted replied, When I get one, you will see for yourself what I can do.

Jack replied, I will take you where you can get a dog if you just want a dog.

That Saturday morning, they went to Oakland County Humane Society. There he found himself a good-looking dog. He was a bluetick mixed with beagle. Ted bought him for ten dollars, and they brought him home with them. He fed him good for two days. After that, Ted turned him loose. He named him Joe, and when he called him, he would come.

The thing he liked to do most was to slide his food pan around in the yard. His front left paw would sit in the empty pan, tilted against his leg, and with the help of his head, he would hold it and run across the backyard growling as though the empty pan was his enemy.

Several days later, Jack said, Let’s take him out with my dog tomorrow. He might be already trained.

Jack and Ted took their dogs out that Tuesday evening. Jack’s dog ran a rabbit for two hours. Ted’s dog didn’t know how to hunt. But he outran Jack’s dog, got in front of him, and tried to look into his mouth while he was barking.

Jack yelled, Look at Joe! He thinks the rabbit is in my dog’s mouth. He started laughing. Then he said, Man, you have yourself some kind of hunting dog. Whenever we go hunting this fall, please don’t take this big thing in the woods with us. I don’t want him fighting with my dog. If he hurts my dog, I will have to shoot him. I am going to tell you something about Old Joe. He will make a good show dog. Get him in a show, and no dog could beat him rolling a pan. He can roll a pan better than I can. Now you take my dog, Ben, he knows how to hunt.

Angrily Ted said, Joe is going to hunt! I don’t care what you say.

Jack laughed so hard; he had to sit down to keep from falling. He stopped laughing long enough to say, What did you say? Then he laughed again.

Ted caught Joe, put his leash on him, and they started for home. Jack called his dog, then he said, Ted, look at Ben! This is a hunting dog. Watch how he follows me without a leash. Ted knew then that he had a lot of work to do training Joe.

Jack told the other fellows about Ted’s dog. Some of them came by just to see Joe roll his pan around in the yard. Man, could that dog roll that pan!

Joe loved to eat, so Ted knew what he had to do. He drove up and down some of the main highways early in the morning until he found a rabbit that had been killed by a car. He picked him up, brought him home, cut his head off, and pulled the fur off his neck. He held the rabbit against the fence where Joe could smell it. The more Joe smelled it, the closer he tried to get to it.

Ted took the neck part and pushed it through the fence. Joe began to chew on it. Ted let him get a good taste of it, and then took it away from him. He started hollering. Ted knew then that he was going to be a good hunting dog.

He tied a string around the rabbit, dragged him around the house, into the front yard. Then he hid him under a hedge bush. He opened the gate and let Joe out. Joe followed that drag until he found the rabbit. Ted took it from him and put him back in the pen; then he made a long drag. He went out of the yard, across the street, on down the hill to the woods, bringing it back in a different direction. Then he hung him in a pine tree. He came back, turned Joe loose, and Joe followed that drag every step of the way until he found that rabbit. He wanted to eat him real bad. Now, Ted knew that he would hunt. He gave him the rabbit to eat.

He then began taking him out behind the golf course every day. Joe got better and better. By the time hunting season came, he was good. Jack would often ask Ted, How is that show dog doing?

Ted would say to him, He’s only good at rolling his food pan.

Jack teased, When you enter him in the show, he should win first prize with his looks alone! Then he would laugh. Just before leaving, he said, That big, old pretty dog could not eat bread off my table. It’s clear that he’s not gonna be able to hunt October 20 when hunting season open.

Now the hunting season had begun. The fellows had bought their license, and they were ready to go hunting. At 7:00 a.m., Jack and Ted rode together since they lived right next door to each other. Jack brought his dog over and put him in Ted’s car trunk, and Ted put Joe in too. Jack joked, We are going to clean up those woods today. We have the show dog with us!

Ted growled in reply, Don’t worry, he will hunt.

Jack replied, You know that I know all about his hunting!

They arrived at the state park’s hunting grounds at 8:00 a.m. They parked their cars in the parking lot that the state provided for hunters to use. They got out of their cars and let the dogs out too. The dogs got plenty of fresh air while they put on their jackets and loaded their guns. Everyone was ready to go hunting!

The day was cool and crisp. The autumn sun caught the top of the trees, and the fresh cried out to be inhabited by hunters. Joe and Ted were on the edge of a great day. They were partners, and now the hunt had begun. Some of the men were at the edge of the field walking in the tall grass, and the others were walking through the woods. They were all walking slowly, watching and listening for the sound of a rabbit running through the grass and leaves. It’s hard for the hunters to see the small rabbit when