Got me a question for yall.

[waylon-N.E. OK]

 " bobcats will bail from the tree and a lot of dogs will continue to tree, while the bobcat  takes off and gives them the slip.  "


A lot dogs never had the bobcat to begin with, cats run up tree's piss and bail and young or unskilled dogs/hunters never figure that out. I've watched an old Cat hunter have to take a long plastic pole he got from some linemen and really thump a bobcat to get him to bail once he was really treed.

[S_J_KENNELS]

I have had young dogs get excited and bay a bedding area or where a smelly boar used to be. Turn loose all the other dogs and nothing happens, or they take off and find it. Go in the brush and it stinks to high heaven of a hog with just the pup baying LOL. I look at it as a learning lesson for the pup, and at least it is hunting and trying. Those pups usually became good dogs with more time and hogs under them.

[wranglercurs]

We took an old dog one night and he left with the others. He bayed by himself and we went to him. He was just standing in one spot baying. I leashed him an took him back to the truck. Next turn out he did the same thing. We went off and left him baying. Hunted about two hours and went back an he's still right there baying. I walked in leashed him and he'll never go hunting with me again.lol

[DixieDogs24]

I guess if it was a young dog and it was clearly a bed or hog wallow I wouldn't cull him for coming up short. I wouldn't beat him or shock him the first time either I would walk hunt him and hope he found the hog he smelled. JMO

TNhillbilly both the blanket back and the saddleback walkers in my pics are grandsons of clover on the bottomside. They are belly brothers both made nice hounds. In fact all five dogs in that litter made coonhounds.

[Skeeterkiller]

I had a cur bay a stump about 150 yards deep in a swamp that was knee deep every step of the way to her. This stump looked so much like a hog that my partner sent 2 catch dogs to it. At least the catch dogs were smarter than us and the bay dog because they ran past it .

[chainrated]

Owned a dog named old bill for about a year that would do it. I walked in to him quiet a few times baying a stump or a bed but the hog was gone..
I've also seen a few old dogs do it after they got on up to 11 or 12 years old and could no longer see or hear very good. They really too old to even be hunting but you feel sorry for them and load em up once in awhile anyway... 

[firemedic]

Firemedic I had a dig Treed in the same tree almost once a week after five or six times I determined he just liked the tree. I quit shining after the fifth or sixth time. Is just pull him off and cut him again. After a few months I was getting tired of it so I got me a trap but it at the bottom of the tree and caught him in a trap I took him for a hide and dog never Treed there again. I figure it was one smart Coon he had white in the mask. You might have some of them on your hands.

You could be exactly right....

[DixieDogs24]

I like my dogs to check a tree before they lock down. It isn't something you train for just comes with hunting time and I think it might be a genetic trait too. Most of the dogs that we breed tend to circle the tree. Maybe its because they are walkers! But that one Coon pulled the slip on my best dog prolly ten or fifteen times and he was probably 80-85% accurate.