Message #251467

[Bryant]

99% of the time, a young pup (if it's going to hunt at all) will stay with the older dogs.  They should be there when they strike.  A young pup that leaves with the old dogs, then comes back has an automatic mark against it in my book.  I've seen pups be on the ground when the older dogs strike in the distance.  Pups just kept running around playing not knowing what the barking was about.  If they don't know to go to a bay, why are they going to run off chasing a trail barking dog?

Heck...bulldogs have to be trained to go to a bay.