What age should you start training a coonhound?
about 12 weeks old
Coonhound training should start when the puppy is about 12 weeks old. The dog should be trained early in the morning, or after a rain. The wet ground helps the puppy’s scent glands work more effectively. You also want the puppy to get used to walking in water and mud puddles.
How do you train a racoon dog?
Let your dog run freely in the woods and explore the new surroundings. Teach your dog to recognize the scent of a raccoon. Place a raccoon carcass in your backyard and let the dog go near it. Hang the carcass from a tree, because you want to train your dog to spot raccoons in trees.
Can a coonhound be trained?
Understand the breed characteristics. Coonhounds are the breed of choice for many small game hunters, especially in North America. They respond well to training and bred to be excellent hunters. They are hard workers and need daily exercise to satisfy their energy levels.
How hard is it to train a coonhound?
Bred as raccoon hunters, American English Coonhounds are high-energy and stubborn with loud, piercing barks. They are friendly, hard workers, but their hunting instincts and determination make them difficult to train as pets. They prefer hunting all night long, rather than settling into a dog bed for the night.
Do coonhounds ever calm down?
“They will go from needing everything out of you because they’re a baby to getting into trouble, chewing on a shoe, or getting into the garbage,” Snedegar says, adding that they usually will calm down before they turn 2 years old.
How do you entertain a coonhound?
Fun games for you and your dog
- Scent games. A dog’s sense of smell is somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 times better than humans (if this same ratio was applied to sight, where a human could see a quarter mile ahead, a dog could see up to 25,000 miles ahead).
- Fetch. You know it.
- Frisbee.
- Under, over and through.
- Chasing.
What do Coonhounds need most?
These dogs are first and fundamentally working dogs – they hunt large and small game. Though good-natured and easygoing, these hardy hounds are so in need of hard physical exercise that they belong with an owner who will take them hunting, jogging (on dirt or grass, not concrete), hiking, and/or swimming.
Do coonhounds like the water?
Do Bluetick Coonhounds like to swim? They can and they love to. While they aren’t a dedicated water dog breed and are more of a raccoon hunting breed, these dogs will still love a good swim. That’s especially the case if they’ve been introduced to swimming adequately and at an early age.