The long range catch dog

T-dog, brains does go a long way. I don't really care for stupid but I still do a face palm now and again lol. However much of you listed as things you don't like I have either been able to correct or are a result of inexperience on the dogs part. I've seen my really good dogs do some over excited stuff and frustrating stuff when they were young. Take Tuff for instance. Tuff is the best all around dog I've ever had. He was hard headed and stubern at one point but I was able to get him to see things my way one day. Great attitude and willing to please since then with minor corrections needed now and then but not often. He also was not good at pulling pigs down for several months despite simotaniously showing more heart and hardness than any big dog I've had to this point. Wasn't till recently did he become really good at pulling pigs down. He probably caught 200 pigs before he became good at pulling pigs down. He would hit them if they were standing but wouldn't run to the head and bring a running pig down with authority untill about 200 pigs into his career. Now at the age of just barely 2 he is the best all around dog I've ever had and one of my best handling dogs. His momma was to small of a dog to be an all around dog. She was bred to be a lead in style dog. Hardest headed dog I've ever had. Took me 2 times to get through to her and it was a contest to see who was gonna get through to the other if you follow my drift. After the second time she was a very different dog. 2nd best handling dog I have ever had. 3rd best is Tuff her son. I sent her to Georgia a year ago to make more little Tuffs. She is a dream for the hard hunting guy I sent her to. She minds him like she did me and is one badass lead in catch dog he says. His kids think she has hung the moon and she thinks they have. Very very sweet and loyal dog. She wasn't always like that though and is 2 mericals in to her being alive. My old thunder dog, the stag I used to have that lit Georgia on fire for stags. That dog was psychoticly crazy for pigs. That dog would squirm, buck, chew, holler, scream, role and flip in order to get free to get back on a tied pig. Took forever to get him off the first time. He could run and squirm away from you so well while holding a pig because he didn't want off that it was quite the process just to get a dang lead snapped on the D ring. Twice I was leading him to a bay and that dog twisted, turned, bucked, and pulled out if his vest and run naked to the bay to make the catch. Then would chew the lead in to in order to get back on. ' I had to tie him tight to the cab of the truck if I had a tied pig in the back. The dog was the most awsome crop dog I have ever seen in my life still. I finally got fed up with that crap and made it known to him in a big way. Just once was all it took and that crap stopped right then and right there. None of those bad disrespectful habits continued on after that day. He never once attacked a tied pig after that. Never chewed a lead to get free, would walk beside me with slack in the lead when he knew I was about to turn him loose to pigs. Would ride free in the bed if my truck and never bother a tied pig. Never was able to trash break him though. If it run it was prey to him except for livestock. He never give any trouble to livestock. I'd walk around a tank and a bull frog would jump and dive into the water. Instantly like shot out of a rifle he would be diving into the water being the bull frog without thought it processing anything. He was a hoot man but anyway, he was super psychotic when i got him. With the proper well timed correction that dog stopped all that crap and obeyed fully by the expectations I demanded of him from that time forward.
Some of the pet peaves can be corrected and are just there because we allow them and don't knkw any different. Some are just behavior that experience overcomes. Others are directly attributed to stupid and little can be done about or corrected like shyness or skittish. I haven't found much I can do to get one over that, that is just naturally that way. I'm sure you mentioned some other stuff that is naturally all on the dog but some of what you mentioned I have delt with and overcome and thought I'd share