Do you plan to break your pup from running deer or anything?
He’s probably going to be very cold nosed, so he’ll work a lot of close tracks vs. streaking off looking for something hot...
But I’m always of the mind that it’s best to train a purpose built dog to NOT do what they are bred to do if you don’t want them to do that, or redirect that instinct and energy into play or something more acceptable...
Shepherds as frisbee dogs is a good example of redirecting, but shepherds specifically trained NOT to chase livestock is example of making sure their instinct doesn’t cause problems...
The number of problematic border collies and Australian shepherds and healers I’ve seen is a big number because folks just seem to hope their pup won’t want to do what their entire lineage was bred to do
For your hound I’d consider breaking him off deer for sure, unless you just like taking long rides around the country side singing “Heeere Mason...” lol
but also maybe encouraging him to tree squirrels or something like that ... although if he trees up hard I’m not sure I would want that either ... might get a bit tedious listening to that
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