Cow Breaking

Thanks for the advice everyone, gave me some things to think about. The pup has been in the pen on a hog a few times and know how to get it done there. She found her own pig in the woods at 8 months old but didnt get it stopped. So she has never been on a caught hog in the woods. She has only chased a few deer, and like I said I was able to call her off, and she has had rabbits jump out right in front of her and she didnt give them a second thought. That is one reason I will halfway tolerate her going after other "game" at this point. Once she sees what she is after in the woods I will lose my tolerance for any trashing. But I dont want her to have ANYTHING to do with livestock...at all!! Around here thats a sure fire way to lose a hunting spot. I broke her off horses and goats starting at day one that I got her since she was around them every day and wanted to chase them. Plus we hunt a lot off of horses. I did it almost like THD said with a 30ft lead. I would let her run the whole 30ft length of the lead then yank her self off the ground at the end of it and telling her "no horse". Then progressively started shortening the length of lead she got to run. Took about a week of doing this and she got the idea. Every now and then she will look cross at a horse and I say "no horse" and she falls back in line. I am kind of thinking the same approach might work with a cow, without having to shock.

One good thing is I talked to the neighbor with the cows about using them for some training and he said he was fine with it as long as the dogs didnt do any chewing.