lab

[catdaddy]

can i train a lab puppy to hunt posums

[Don Fischer]

Don't know why you'd want to? When I lived in the Willamette Valley, we could just go to Salem and scrape them up off the streets! Actually, you could train most any dog to hunt what ever you want. Hunting is an instinct in a dog, we've fooled with those instincts to create different breeds that do different things. Now how you'd do it, that would take some thought!

[catdaddy]

so a lab will be able to hunt coon and posum if i train him

[lefty red]

You can train a Lab to do anything you know how to train them to do!

LEFTY

[Don Fischer]

If you knew how, you could probally train a goat to do it, why would you want to? I'd venture a guess that a Begale would make a much better possum dog than a lab.

[nabob]

If the dog has the natural desire to hunt, all it takes is getting him onto the scents you want him to follow. Not a lot more to it than that.

We used redbones and Walkers for coons when I lived in Georgia.

[jrlinz]

If you knew how, you could probally train a goat to do it, why would you want to? I'd venture a guess that a Begale would make a much better possum dog than a lab.

I like the goat.  Can we talk more about that?

[jrlinz]

If the dog has the natural desire to hunt, all it takes is getting him onto the scents you want him to follow. Not a lot more to it than that.

We used redbones and Walkers for coons when I lived in Georgia.

Redbones are the best coonhounds, in my opinion.  I used to hunt them.

[Don Fischer]

I'd guess that one problem you'll have with a lab is that after you teach them to run a track, you might find they run silent. How you gonna find the dog? They might also leave the tree what then? I'm pretty sure all this could be overcome and the best way in my opinion would be to get something like a Beagle or some other treeing hound.

[Ranger J]

I think a Lab might have too much class for that.  Mine is only half lab and there are certain things the 'queen of the back yard' just doesn't do and touch a possum is one of those.  She treats them as if they have some social disease, which come to think of it they might.   All kidding aside your dog might enjoy chasing a possum but if for some  reason you really want to hunt possums one of the hound breeds would be better.
RJ