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Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves

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Speaker 1: from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living.

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Speaker 1: I want you to stay awhile as I share my

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Speaker 1: experiences and life lessons. This Country Life is presented by

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Speaker 1: Case Knives on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the

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Speaker 1: best outdoor podcast the airwaves have to offer. All right, friends,

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Speaker 1: grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I've got some

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Speaker 1: stories to share whaling Jessee and the girls. Bringing a

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Speaker 1: puppy into the family is a risky gamble if it's

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Speaker 1: a hun dog. Not all of them turn out like

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Speaker 1: you want. And after the family gets attached, what happens next?

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Speaker 1: Are you stuck with a pet? I'm so excited to

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Speaker 1: talk about what's new at my house that we're just

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Speaker 1: going to jump straight to it and discuss what my

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Speaker 1: experience has been and that of some of my friends.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Every week here on the This

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Speaker 1: Country Life Show, nine times out of ten, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about something that happened in the past, either recently or

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Speaker 1: back with me and Jesus were still in junior high.

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Speaker 1: I'm connected to the past as we all are, and

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Speaker 1: it's from those experiences that help shape our lives and

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Speaker 1: format how we see things and point us on the

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Speaker 1: past that we choose to follow. Now the same can

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Speaker 1: be said for this week. But I'm also going to

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Speaker 1: be talking about the future and an investment I'm making

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Speaker 1: now that I hope to start seeing the dividends of

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Speaker 1: in the next year. No, I'm not talking about betting

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Speaker 1: an easy way to fold a fitted sheet to revolutionize

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Speaker 1: the home laundry business. I'm getting a coon dog puppy,

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Speaker 1: or better yet, we're getting a coon dog puppy because

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Speaker 1: everyone in the household will be affected by her presence. Now,

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Speaker 1: the responsibility for her carries up to me, but I

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Speaker 1: have a job that requires me to travel at times.

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Speaker 1: And as strong of an argument that I made to

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Speaker 1: Alexis before we got her, that she would have to

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Speaker 1: do anything and taking care of our new occupant and

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Speaker 1: that I would take care of it all, well that

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Speaker 1: wasn't true. She and I both knew it when I

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Speaker 1: said it. So why would I go through the expense

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Speaker 1: and aggravation and long term gamble of investing in the

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Speaker 1: time of raising a puppy, not as a pet, but

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Speaker 1: in hopes that she will be the caliber coon hound

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Speaker 1: and hunting companion that I have now in the dog

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Speaker 1: I've been hung the last five and a half years

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Speaker 1: that most of you are more than familiar with my

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Speaker 1: dog whaling. First, let's talk about what's at stake. This

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Speaker 1: puppy is ten weeks old as of today, February fourteen.

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Speaker 1: She'll be ten months old before she's mentally mature enough

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Speaker 1: to even start and developing an idea of what her

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Speaker 1: purpose is for being here on the planet. Now, I

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Speaker 1: know there's some folks that will say, my puppy was

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Speaker 1: running in tree and coons by themselves when they were

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Speaker 1: six months old. Blah blah blah whatever. There are always

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Speaker 1: a million dog prodigy arguments. I'm talking in generalities here,

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Speaker 1: and I know there are some adolescent phenoms out there.

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Speaker 1: I get it, But that's not normal. What is normal

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Speaker 1: is that one time Michael Jordan was just a kid

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Speaker 1: playing basketball with his friends and was no better or

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Speaker 1: worse than they were then. Through hard work and practice,

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Speaker 1: best ever basketball player so far. Anyway, Now, do I

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Speaker 1: expect this puppy to be the best ever. No, I don't,

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Speaker 1: because I already know her main limitation. And that's me.

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Speaker 1: If it weren't for my friends and mentors like Michael

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Speaker 1: before I got him, and especially the natural ability of

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Speaker 1: this tree of walker coon now that snored at my

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Speaker 1: the dog that he is. He's a pretty good dog.

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Speaker 1: Anyone that's hunted with him will tell you that. Could

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Speaker 1: he have been a world champion? Hard to say, but

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Speaker 1: I guarantee that he could have been better known in

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Speaker 1: the competition world, even more so than he is in

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Speaker 1: that will anchor this new puppy into abject competition obscurity.

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Speaker 1: Me again, it just ain't my thing. What is my

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Speaker 1: only compete with the coon. Since Whaling started treeing on

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Speaker 1: wasn't confident in his abilities. He was an easy dog

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Speaker 1: You're right to a certain extent, but to me, when

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Speaker 1: you break it down, there's no difference in a dog

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Speaker 1: treeing a coon and one herding sheep or riding a unicycle.

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Speaker 1: You have to build off a dog's natural ability and

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Speaker 1: That's why they do what they do, beyond their natural

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Speaker 1: to play the piano, But believe me, it's all connected.

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Speaker 1: Working dogs have been purposely bred over the last fifteen

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Speaker 1: coon dog. Let's talk about this investment and risk of

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Speaker 1: bringing a puppy into the family. Circle of dog lovers

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Speaker 1: like the two I live with, My daughter Bailey and

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Speaker 1: my wife Alexis loved dogs now, not coon dogs, not

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Speaker 1: lap dogs, dogs, every one of them. They have as

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Speaker 1: case pocket knives and Belgium made shotguns. I know folks

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Speaker 1: not in that number. Now. I don't mind selling a

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Speaker 1: found its forever home. The same can be said for dogs.

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Speaker 1: To Alexis and Bailey, it's like they're working in the

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Speaker 1: which brings me back to investment risk I took when

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Speaker 1: not as a replacement for Whaling, who'll be six years

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Speaker 1: the opportunity presents themselves or not. He has earned his

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Speaker 1: direct descendant of Whalen's grandfather, the famous treated walker known

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Speaker 1: That's two months old in February of twenty five, More

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Speaker 1: was fortunate that Whalen did so well in the hunting because,

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Speaker 1: as I've related on here prior to now, the girls

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Speaker 1: the dog now. Had Whalen not turned out to be

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Speaker 1: of years to Alexis that when I eventually got another

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Speaker 1: dog train hunt to see Whalen. Now, I might have

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Speaker 1: And while she could do that, she didn't do that

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Speaker 1: Remember when I said we'd been manipulating the breeds of

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Speaker 1: silently hunting in packs for all types of prey, primarily

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Speaker 1: If you want to follow along on Jesse's progress and

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