Hyper or High Energy Dogs

To be honest I am like the old man and take them as they come but one of the points I was making was at the highest levels of competition were there are big stakes on the line when animals are ONLY bred for performance you tend to see higher percentages of these high energy animals. Are those things directly related or purely coincidence? Since I don't really believe much in coincidence so I think on a broader sense they are.

This last couple of years I've been around some comp coonhounds and I've noticed it some with them, they are not all high strung but I have seen quite a high percentage that are. I have had a quite a few people tell me when I unsnap that lead they better be gone, or I better see dust etc. My thought is you have to breed to the extreme to get the average up where you want it, Tdog tells me that all the time and I believe he is fully right and that may be a contributing factor to this. There is no right or wrong answer just a man's preference and what they will put up in order to get what they want.

Finally I used to talk to one of my old houndsman mentors after most of my hunts on the phone and I remember telling him about one of the two high strung dogs I mentioned earlier because he would frustrate me and try to cast out deep when he knew we were ready to go home and he laughed and said "Michael that is a good problem, you can take it out of them but you can't put it in".