Hey guys. Have a question. I got a catahoula gyp, round 4 months old. She is a pretty good little pup, and hates a hog already, but we are having some issues. First off, she is a little on the shy side, and won't just come to me. I don't have to chase her down, but she isn't gonna just trot up to me. Any suggestions on fixing this? Second off, if she does screw up, and I yell or gripe at her then she cows down and shakes for several hours. I have never hit or kicked her at all, so is this just a cat thing?
I ain't never had a catahoula around, so give me some things that work, because I am finding out she is a TON different than my bmc's
You need to do some basic training with her, sounds like she has not been handled enuff or is a slow developer, buy a basic training book and start over with basic stuff, make her eat from your hand right away, dont feed her unless she eats from your hand and start petting her more and more, get a collar and tie some weedeater line on it so you can catch her with your boot, call her name, Gal, come, then reel her in and give her a treat, do this every time you see her shy away, get some kind of a game to play with her, get a squeaky toy, a piece of hog hide on a spring rope to wool over or something so she will come out of her shell, right now is critcal in her developement, she will be find with some extra handling, anyway you could get a carrier from TSC and put her in house or truck while you are in the house or going to the farm or store so she will watch you work, you could kennel train her as well with it, handle more, get her to know her name and the comand to come, get a play toy for fun and dont give up, you have already started her training and rehab by asking for help, when you get her going some more you can teach her to command to load up in the dog box or truck with the lead, you might have to build a ramp or something but keep it up every day and praise her if she does a comand corretly or attempts its, good luck, lots of hog dogs are runined right here as they are not under control and first time they go hunting they dont handle and get the cull tag becuase they did not load or did not hunt or what ever they blame the unstarted dog for, good luck
