[TaterNort]

What is your definition or what you think of when someone says thier dog forsale is a little "easy"? Does this mean lacks foot "speed", lacks hunt, lacks desire? What is your definition?

 

[Hippy]

My interpretation is that it is a average dog- does not care where they run in the pac-NOT a front end dog more like a 3rd or 4th of of 4- Not great hunt butt not a boot licker --kill rabbits from him

Jim

 

[RebelBawlerKnls]

Easy usually is referring to speed, example would be, excellent gundog but to easy to trial

 

[Curnel]

Easy usually is referring to speed, example would be, excellent gundog but to easy to trial

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[huntnharris]

My interpretation is that it is a average dog- does not care where they run in the pac-NOT a front end dog more like a 3rd or 4th of of 4- Not great hunt butt not a boot licker --kill rabbits from him

Jim

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[Foxxy]

Goes about it’s business with out getting frustrated or rattled. Does what is expected without difficulties, fanfare or mistakes. Does everything right, content and consistent on the way they do it.

 

[Huntsman]

When I hear “easy”, I generally assume that hound would not have enough drive to suit me. Easy in my mind is a hound who merely follows a rabbit without much intent to overtake it. A lot of people like that type.

 

[Bowguy 1]

Easy is very well in the eye of the beholder. It prob means not over competitive for sure. Over competitiveness messes way more up than other traits ever will. The term though, to be understood in its context, would imo require you to know who you are speaking to. A gun dog brace guy says easy it might lack just a step or two to win, heck a hare guy could just want a pinch more competitive fire and foot too but the word brings up a very different dog in each guys eye. The easy gun dog brace guys hound is a useless pot licker to the hare guy. His easy dog is flat out psychotic to the gun dog brace guy.
Idk if you can exactly come up with a definition I’d say it’s very variable. Just not competitive or fast enough for the fellow you’re speaking to imo.

 

[duke1]

It varies.. what i think of is that it is not competitive enough to trial or for the pack of the seller.

 

[cltyus1]

Could be a lot of things.
Could be one of them terms used to sell a cull lol.

May be a great rabbit dog with solid pressure but not at the front of the trial packs.

Could be a dog that doesn’t move the track and ain’t getting much done.

I don’t want the dog not getting much done.

 

[rogerblankenship]

To me it simply means, not getting enough done!

 

[5 Solas]

I would add too, I bet 80% of beaglers think they run a dogs that are a speed of 6 or upper-medium dogs. I have seen Branko and hare hound dogs called upper-medium and I have seen super-conservative appaclachian hounds called upper-medium. Same thing with line control. Everybody has "decent line control." It could be "yeah they are decent, never more than 3 feet from the line" or "yeah they are decent, line is always between their front legs." Bowguy is right, it really is all about who you ask and what their goals and preferences are.

I have a hound that is easy that is sometimes first out of a check, but never leaves the line. He makes a pack better, but will never win a trial. He will also never take away from a race either. When I am hunting, he is a great asset. He is easy though.