Jim decided to get himself a new hunting dog for coon season. He had heard about a trainer that lived just out side of town and the rumor was this guy trained the best hunting dogs in the country.
Jim got his number and called the trainer up. The trainer told Jim to come on out because he had just finished training a dog. Jim got in his truck and went to the trainers house.
Jim arrived and the trainer met him in the drive way. They talked for a little while until Jim asked the trainer about the dog. The trainer told Jim that the dogs he trained were special, highly trained and very expensive. Jim was starting to get a little skeptical now but the trainer told Jim to come with him and they would take the dog out and prove how good the dog was.
Jim, the trainer and the dog went to the woods that was across a farm field from the trainers house. When they got to the edge of the woods, the trainer said to Jim that he would let the dog go and the dog would return and tell them how many coon were in the trees in that set of woods. Jim said ok but was now really skeptical.
About five minutes later, the dog returned, stopped in front of Jim and the trainer and barked once. The trainer looked at Jim and told him that the dog had found one coon. The trainer then told the dog to lead and Jim and the trainer followed until the dog stopped at a tree and looked up. The trainer turned his flashlight on and pointed it into the tree and there was one coon in the tree. Jim was slightly impressed.
The trainer got the dog and the three of them walked out of that set of woods and into the next. The trainer released the dog again and the same thing happened except this time the dog barked twice. They all went into the second set of woods and sure enough there were two coons. By now Jim was convinced about the dog.
The three of them returned back to the trainers house and Jim asked how much. The trainer repeated what he had said earlier about the dog being expensive and all Jim said was how much. The trainer said "ten thousand dollars." Without blinking an eye, Jim wrote out a check for that amount.
A couple of days after getting the dog, Jim decided to go out coon hunting. He got his light, his shot gun and the dog and headed for the woods. Arriving at the first set of woods, Jim sent the dog on out, and a few minutes later the dog returned, looked at Jim and barked once. Jim followed the dog, turned his light into the tree, saw the coon and shot it. Jim took the dog to the second set of wood and told it to go.
After waiting five minutes. Then after ten minutes, Jim was starting to get a little worried about the dog when the dog all of a sudden ran out of the woods, ran over to Jim, started running around in a circle barking his head off. He stopped doing that, picked up a stick off of the ground, shook it at Jim then dropping the stick, he then jumped on Jims leg. After a minute, the dog got off of Jims leg and started to repeat what he had done when he first came out of the woods. When the dog was about to jump on Jim again, Jim shot him because he thought the dog had gone crazy.
After Jim got his breath and wits again, Jim picked up the dog, put him in his truck and drove back to the trainers house. By the time Jim arrived at the trainers house, he was mad because the guy had sold him a crazy dog. Jim walked up to the door and beat on it until the trainer opened it. The trainer asked what the problem was and Jim just went off on how the trainer had sold him a dog that went crazy, had to be put down and that Jim wanted his money back.
The trainer asked Jim what had happened. Jim told the trainer about going hunting that night and about the dog running out of the woods, running in a circle, picking up and shaking a stick at him and jumping on his leg.
The trainer thought about it for a minute, looked Jim straight into the eye and told him that he was not getting his money back.
Jim asked why?
The trainer sad, "All that dog was trying to tell you was there were more blanking coon out there then you can shake a stick at."
(self censored so I don't get in trouble with the mods)