How do you get your dog started on cats?
Find fresh tracks in the snow and walk em up on a lead for a ways. Then turn em loose. Once they tree one they're hooked.
I also train on trapped Coon so she'll run a Coon too if left to her own devices but I don't mind just so long as she don't run Deer. A little electricity cures that though.
Getting her bark on with my buddy's GWP. Believe it or not, that stupid pointer trees Coon better than most hounds. LOL
She jumped this one while we were running my trap line a couple years ago. I had a Coon in a trap while she had one in a tree about 50 yrds away. It was a pretty exciting morning. Thought I was going to have to go back to the house and get more ammo. LOL