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Author Topic: Starting a pup - trash breaking question  (Read 1774 times)
Eric
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« on: May 27, 2009, 12:47:07 am »

I do the same as uglydog. IF you do any research on training working dogs the FIRST thing they say is OBEDIENCE. IF the dog doesn't have the mental capacity to sit... there is no use going any further with training. NO and Get Out and are some of the first things it will learn.

As soon as they understand the commands I start on trash breaking. I take the pups riding with me to check cattle or what ever and every time we go past cattle, deer or what ever I say "No, get outta there". If they are real focused on what ever I get in there face and swap at their nose to break the attention off the trash and get it back to me... the one giving the commands.

I have a dog right now that I got when it was 3 mo old. Bayed hogs its 2nd time in the woods, never saw a hog prior. It will be a jam up dog if I don't kill it before it gets a year old. I will never take another dog and let it hunt before it is solid on handle. I am training as we go and its twice the work.

This is just my opinion, there are tons of ways to raise dogs. I am of the thinking that no matter what I do... teach it to fetch, sit, trash break, what ever... if that hinders the dogs hunt the dog wasn't much count any ways.
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