Developing a dog

T-dog…I don’t intentionally put a pup in harms way but it happens at times…I had a pup that I named Gold Nugget…he was pure Kemmer bred from a really good bloodline…he had everything I liked, size, conformation, slick coat, and color was right…he also had the brains…we were on a hunt and at 6 months he was hunting really well…it was his third time out and improving…in a black berry patch and cutover the size of maybe 10 acres and the hogs ran and hid in this patch…the 4 wheeler had trouble busting in a few spots in this patch…this pup was in their crawling around trailing pigs and he found one that worked him over pretty good…long story short, he quit hunting after that incident…

I didn’t prepare this pup as I normally do…no bay pen time only fed him a few raw hog heads as a little pup .

The wolf as many other predators have fear factors that the babies will possess which more than likely it happened through evolution…the first one is early around two months but not exactly sure on exact time for pups…I see this as a time when they leave the den to explore their surroundings…the cubs or pups that explore too far will get lost or eaten by other predators thus eliminating themselves out of the genetic pool…

The second one comes at a time when they are almost old enough to go on a hunt…those that lack the right amount of fear or caution at this stage will get disabled or killed and will be eliminated from the gene pool as well…

So the pups we raise will normally have these same traits naturally…but as previously said we breed our dogs according to our likes and dislikes…

This is a good subject…hopefully more will contribute their thoughts and theories on developing a dog…