teaching a catch dog to go to a bay

[xpressboat87]

Figured everyone has different ways of teaching yalls catch dogs what a bay I and I'm curious to hear everyone's different ways on how yall do things

[BIG BEN]

A few mock hunts then it's usually wired in their brain.

[halfbreed]

    if you need to just walk them in to a bay a couple times , after that if they don't go  START OVER WITH A NEW DOG  LOL  I've never seen the need to teach most will go when they hear the dogs bark . but I never like turning mine out till I can see the hog . I rely on my baydogs to hold them in place till I get there  .

[KevinN]

If it's one CD by itself...mock hunts w/ a young bay dog barking or just a young dog baying in a pen. Once the CD associates the barking with a pig its a done deal.

If you already have a CD started...just walk the new CD in with the seasoned catch dog and let the newby go right beside the seasoned dog. Newby will usually follow the started dog in.

[Texashog26]

If it's one CD by itself...mock hunts w/ a young bay dog barking or just a young dog baying in a pen. Once the CD associates the barking with a pig its a done deal.

If you already have a CD started...just walk the new CD in with the seasoned catch dog and let the newby go right beside the seasoned dog. Newby will usually follow the started dog in.

works everytime that's exactly what we do, get em catchin and take em to the woods wth a finished cd and turn em loose together