Demon Dog

Bk,

   You a duck hunter, aunt's got a kennel and raises lab's.  Use to train her pups fer here?

Spot

  Many dog's stop listening when their on a scent trail.  I know it sounds rough but get a prong'ed choke collar (sometimes called a pinching choke collar) with a 20-30 ft leash.  If he's big already, you can "board," train him.  Put him on a board 3x4 ft. and tell him to whoa, (or what ever word you want but be consistant) keep the collar tight but not so it grab's him.  When he stands still tell him good boy, and when he's doing that it's time to progress.  With the collar on, saw whoa, keep sayin it, and then throw a ball or something while repeating whoa.  He's a lab so he's gonna tear off, when he does hit him hard by pullin his front legs up off the ground.  usually takes only a couple of times and they stop doin it quick.  Some folks put their hand just over their head before they throw the ball, but that's fer duck dog's who sit next to them on the left side.  Once they stay put tell them good dog, and move you hand from just in front of their face in the direction the ball went like your throwing it, and say go, get it, fetch (whatever).

 When you can get him to stay next to you till you release him, then you move to the field, use the lease with the pincher in the field and give him a whoa, if he doesn't hit him hard pull back, hell it's a lab walk backwards.  Keep it up till he takes it as a habbit.  If the board work did the job he'll stop dead when you say whoa.  Make sure you release him with an OK.

Just one other thing, you could use a shocker to do it, but personally I don't like them.  I only use them when I take them off the pincher, if I'm still havin problems.  Haven't had to use one so long I got rid of mine.

Spot

P.S. - I went into instruction mode so's others could benifit, don't mean to be lecturin but some of these lesson's could save a huntin dog's life.  If ya know what I mean.

 

I've got some basic stuff done with him. He knows stay and go. But if I tell him to stay and then throw something, he seems to be so happy that he stayed that he forgets to go. 1/2 the time he'll go get it, the other 1/2 he just hops up and gets happy. He's about 1 1/2 years but still acts like a newborn. I did get a shock collar when we came out here. He took off all the time and wouldn't listen at all, just ran. I used it just enough to get him to stay within a few hundred yards of the house. He still wonders of to who knows where now and then, but he's usually back within an hour. He's good if you watch him though. The new problem is the fields are growing up pretty tall and I think he gets lost! I can stand up on our deck and see the grass moving where he is, but when you yell for him he zig zags all over the place and you have to keep yelling so he can follow your voice. He stays in the house all day and when somebody gets home he will run around and go nuts until he finds something to bring you. He will NOT great you with an empty mouth! Oh, well, that's enough rambling for now. Can you tell I really love my pup?

Sounds like a fun pup, mine is kind of the same.  She losses her mind if she cain't find a sock to bring to you when you get home.  Bit embarressin when I bring someone with me.  Thank God she don't do it with underware.  Got a 13 year old, and I have appearently broken him in on pickin his room up.

Spot

Here is a picture of my beagle...

NH_Hunter

BTW: I had the camera set to a wierd mode, so he was squinting from the flash.

NH,

I think I should pass on the title of demon dog to you. Mine looks somewhat sane when he is awake at least.

Spot,

To funny! There is definately some sort of mastermind plot getting spun on the gears inside that pups head! I think maybe he's plotting a way to slip that coller onto his master. I could just see him hopping around yipping "how do you like it, huh spike? huh, huh, do ya, do ya? ZZZAAAAAPPPPPPP!!

Ok now i got a good picture of him...

NH,

   Looks like he lost some weight since that last picture, or at least his skin fits tigher (one of the two).  You hunt rabbit's with that dog?

BK,

   I'm sorry, but that thing looks like somethin you buy from spencers around holloween in the mall.  What kinda battries does it take to light up them eyeballs? (spookey lookin)  Cute kid though, is thet dog a lab or a marma duke?  Kinda reminds me of thet monster dog in Ghostbusters.

Spot

 

Yeah, being a cheapo camera doesn't help. Rather poor lighting inside, then the flash makes it worse.

She saw the other pictures and just had to have hers taken and I was too lazy to walk outside. The way he is stretched to the side does have a GB look to it!

Shadow is a mix between pure golden and pure german shorthair

great looking dogs, and cute kids too!

i'll try to get a good pic of my dog, daisy up sometime. here is one from about 2 years ago when she was jsut a pup. she is mostly lab and appears to have some terrier and/or sled dog of some type in her. she's a mutt, but she's a great dog!

 

 

 

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