Hyper or High Energy Dogs

My observation with a lot of dogs that are kennel kept and really high strung, is that they are usually pretty intelligent animals. If they were out where they could keep their mind stimulated, they wouldn’t be AS hyper. I use to keep my dogs rotated every few days. To me it helped keep them grounded and from going stir crazy. Stir crazy and pen stale are real and it happens to a lot of dogs. Getting knew scenery and née dogs to tell hunting stories ( even if they are lies about how big or how many) through the wire to helps in my opinion. The best dog I ever owned had all day every day stamina, and was a business minded. You couldn’t ask for more hunt, drive, or want to. At home though, he was one laid back quiet rascal. He never made a sound unless you were headed to the hog pen. Every time you looked at him you could tell he was thinking. He was one that looked you in the eye. I have a couple now that are high strung. One of them is like a Mexican Jumping bean, he’s just busting at the seems to load up and go hunt. The other one isn’t quite as bad but still wound up. My lead dog though is the quiet laid back type and she never says a word or bounces off the walls. Feeding time comes and she goes in her kennel and is waiting on me to get there and never puts her head in the bowl until I close the gate. When I come back and turn them out, she just eases out and gets some petting and goes on before the others come over and are jumping and flailing around on her to get their petting. The other two I have to tell them the same thing every day. Go get in your pen because they are doubled up in a kennel wanting to be first. Settle down your gonna get fed or get down and quit hitting that gate and I’ll let you out. So my pick is the laid back type that had a work ethic. High strung can definitely get it done just not my preference.

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