Alot of folks forgot how to sharpen a shovel when the time comes.
The pet aspect seems to get confused with tools of the trade since hunting has become mostly recreational
That's the whole reason for it in my opinion. I had alot of dogs in the past and I woogie woogie wuvved thems, yes I did, yes I did!

I got attached to them, let my wife get attached to them and let my feelings for them cloud my judgement of their piss poor performances.
I have since then learned the value of saying $&@" it! Click click boom.
X2 The reason that you don't see a bunch of sorry, no hunting coyotes is because they would starve to death. Mother nature culls hard. If we culled ( take out of the gene pool ) as hard as mother nature then we would have some good dogs.