Teaching a dog to "Roll Out"

[djhogdogger]

 We never could figure out how to teach our dogs to roll out. We would make the dogs get back after we put our hands on the hog and tell them "caught hog". Finally after hunting the same pack for 3 years. The oldest dog at age 4 just started rolling out on his own. YEA!!!!!  Here lately when we catch a hog he will take off again while we are tieing it up. Maybe now, he will teach the rest of them.

 YEstarday he killed a choat and rolled out before we got there and then later he struck a sow with some choats and the garmin showed him bayed for a short while. By the time we got there he was on the move again. We thought the bay had broke until I looked down in a drain ditch and saw a choat moving a little. He had killed it and moved on out after the rest of them.

 This is a new tactic for this dog, he just started doing. He used to stay with a hog after we caught it and we couldn't get him to leave for nothing. Not sure what clicked in his head but Im not complaining.


I guess my point is that after over a year of trying, I gave up on the idea that the dogs would ever get it. But persistance finally paid off. But three years sure was a long time.

[Circle C]

Get ready for some long nights....  I like a dog that will roll out, I LOVE a dog that will roll out, but can be called off a track if I am ready to go home  

[BarrNinja]

Dogs that roll out well will usually have you saying " somebody catch that damn dog" before the end of the hunt! Lol

They can work you pretty hard but I like em!

[djhogdogger]

 If he can hear you, you can ususally call him out ....unless he is hot on somethings trail.   We have had to make phone calls to go get him. LOL

Plus, its nice because we used to call him the one hog wonder. NOT ANYMORE!!

[leonidas]

HAHA you can say that again..... BONESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Dogs that roll out well will usually have you saying " somebody catch that damn dog" before the end of the hunt! Lol

They can work you pretty hard but I like em!

[make-em-squeel]

Get ready for some long nights....  I like a dog that will roll out, I LOVE a dog that will roll out, but can be called off a track if I am ready to go home  

Thats the truth, I sold a great dog cause of that kind of bottom with no understanding of the come command.

However that dog did teach the other dogs he hunted with to role it, the pack is the best teacher, worked for me

[txhogsanddogs]

I have 3 that will do that, i promise you i don't hunt those 3 together.  Ask anyone i hunt with and they will tell you if i'm trying to make a short hunt i will name the dog to them and when we get there someone better jump on that dog.  I love all3 of them though.  Makes for a good hunt when you have paying clients. 

[Noah]

All mine will roll out if they been in hogs thick for a while... but when we have a slow period with a hog hear and there... they tend to want to "savor" the moment a bit more... and I don't blame them!!! lol

Like you said, I think it just takes a crap load of hogs before a dog figures it out!

[TShelly]

It helps to have teachers. Especially if the dog that rolls out gives a little mouth on track, it'll help teach the younger dogs to not hang around.  Luckily most all of ours roll off well, even the grittier ones. Just a tap on the head sends them on their way.

I agree Noah it just comes from lots and lots of hogs! I also thinks it's bred into them though, we  hunt some line bred cur dogs and the gyps in particular we'll roll out as soon as you turn the CD loose. Heck sometimes if there's a a few dogs baying a hog, as soon as we show up. They'll roll off and Leave the rest of the dogs to catch that hog

[levibarcus]

I posted not long after I started hunting with the same problem. The advice I got was to shoo the dogs away, get after them just enough to get them off and keep them off of the hog and it worked. I have one dog that has been rolling out after his first 20 or so hogs. Another pup I started a few months after him started doing it even sooner. Last night they caught a small pig in a creek and we sent a cd just to be sure it stayed caught. When we stuck the pig all I had to do was say "caught hog, get ahead!" and they were gone on the rest of the hogs. It can make for some long nights, especially when 3 dogs roll out on 3 different hogs and are all bayed 3 miles away from each other!

[djhogdogger]

I posted not long after I started hunting with the same problem. The advice I got was to shoo the dogs away, get after them just enough to get them off and keep them off of the hog and it worked. I have one dog that has been rolling out after his first 20 or so hogs. Another pup I started a few months after him started doing it even sooner. Last night they caught a small pig in a creek and we sent a cd just to be sure it stayed caught. When we stuck the pig all I had to do was say "caught hog, get ahead!" and they were gone on the rest of the hogs. It can make for some long nights, especially when 3 dogs roll out on 3 different hogs and are all bayed 3 miles away from each other!

I live for hunts like that!