Message #464963

[Myles Man]

The guy that told me about the coon dog not swimming is a complete stranger, I didn't really think to much of his "huntin dog" tales. Maybe he just learned from Where the Red Fern Grows, lol

The red river is actually what has me asking, from experience. Watching my Bella gyp and Machito cur surf the red river barking at a 250 pound boar when the river was up 6 ft was a pretty crazy chase. The dogs did great. Machito swam/floated down about 300 yds and quit/came back. Bella swam/floated down 800 yds and never quit, until she figured she got out ran, then decided to come back. That's when I learned people  who live on the river stay away from it when it's rollin!
So training a dog to stay away from water makes no sense...I get that....I think he was wanting some credit on the whole "a coon will drown a dog" punch line...hes just full of it!!!