EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I'm all ears to any tips, tricks, or sure fire ways to get a dog to stop running a road.  He hunts fairly deep until he hits a road and then it's NASCAR time.  He might travel two miles before he starts hunting again. I've considered culling him, but instead of culling him I might as well try fixing this before I do since I have nothing to lose.  I've broke dogs before from this but none were this stubborn or gave me fits like this one does. 

put him on the hood

Is he Parker blooded?

You knew it would be Kevin  ;D

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No he's hunting 800-1500 yds out but if he hits a road he runs it, sometimes for a couple of hundred yards or sometimes as far as he can go.

horse or 4 wheeler,bull whip,shock collar and use the command turn it around ....this works I run 10 hounds at a time at work horse back when i get road runners I chase them down use the whip and tell them turn it around after a few times I can ride down the road and dogs work side to side and if one lifts his head like he's gonna go i call his name and tell him turn it around  ;D I got a 24yr ole horse thats loves to see a runner you give him his head and he'll roll one up  ;D .....AND a big cattle guard works well also  :o

Its in their blood.  I've noticed that with a lot of dogs from that line.  Some of them grow out of it.

Was their anything you did to help keep it to a minimum like a shock collar or something else I may not be thinking about.

Is he running an easy route to check for tracks or just tramping? Aside from being dangerous it almost sounds pretty smart

No he's running my blood pressure up is what he's doing.  Hes just running the road to run, I'm sure he'd make a heckuva dog for someone who road hunts but I like cast dogs and that's where my problem lies with him.  I can cast him and he goes far, til he hits the road and it's over with, no hunting just running.

i have had no luck keepin em from doing it. i would get rid of him if u had something better. i kno exactly how aggrevating it can get especially when u know if they would get off the road they would be in hogs.

  You might try running his butt over.  :D .  Make him scared of roads.  I really don't know what to do about it., they just go Forrest Gump sometimes.

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it works

Try to head him off at the road and beat the fleas off him and send him back in the woods. they don't get that from larry he don't have no roads----LOL

Hey Black, he sure don't have many in that river bottom country he hunts.  I been on the phone with him alot over this one getting the kinks worked outta this one.  He has a couple that no matter what, they can't resist loping down a firebreak or road when they get a chance.  He's gonna be a good dog if I can get him outta this stage.

I put a shock collar on him and burned his butt up on the road and he hunted his butt of but sure wouldn't let me catch him after that, got the ol lady out there to catch him up at 930 that night  ;D

drag a pig across a road and if he veers off that track fry the sucker till he gets off the road

I got a dog that will do that on a couple of my smaller places.  He'll run the road and when he winds or hits a good track going in or out he'll hit it. Its just him being smart I guess

got one that runs out on log roads he is tuff runs hard i kinda like it but i dont turn out on dirt roads.ive heard a about them parkers being track dogs will he strike off the road or just run cause its easy. he maybe smart and not much nose or young. if hes he's cruising that far at a good pace you dont like him PM me i might want the dog.

Not sure how you can break em from it. Ive seen a few dogs make a habit of running roads until they find a track. One ole boy just thought he had a hum dinger of a long range dog.

What kind of handle do you have on him?

I found out the other he was road hunted for along time and he did pretty good so it's gonna be hard to break him.  I placed him with a friend who roads hunt to test him to see if heis actually a cull or just set in his ways as a road hunting dog.

To answer your question BoarNinja, there isn't much of a handle, he can definitely be peculiar at times.

What's he out of?

If your asking what Parker dogs made him, he'd be a Jeanie x Ratchet cross.  Do you know anything about the cross or the line?

Yeah I know a good bit about Parker's i run all Parker's. I have seen many do it and like someone earlier said u gotta either run em over on that road or catch em on it and bust hide!!

I was just wondering. The one thing in common with the few road runners I've seen is that they didn't have any handle on them.
Sorry I don't have any tried and true training/correction tips for you. Ive got my own ideas but the fact of the matter is that ive never tried to break one from that habit. And thats what i think it is. Sure hope you get him sorted out. He sounds like he wants to find a hog bad enough.

You can try clipping him tight next to another slower paced dog while hunting him works on getting them out sometimes why not slowing em down?

That sounds like a real good way to get two dogs wrecked if they find a hog...

At least he will be there at the bay. ;)

i would keep him on a lead and try to walk in some where that is ate up in fresh hog sign and cut him loose and see if he can bay one up? it seems that if hes a hog dog a few times doing this he may figure out the woods are where the hogs are? but if he keeps leaving fresh sign and just keeps running roads and not finding hogs i would cull him i dont care what his bloodlines are?

If you feel you need to cull him send him this way or let me know. All my dogs get roaded here on this ranch he won't get out. High fenced tight lol he can road till he invents a hog or bumps into one no matter to me just put one on the end I don't need to see him till he's bayed anyway.