Another thing I’m going to start working with them on is how to behave when it comes to loading up. Right now I have to leash each individual dog and walk them to the back of the truck and tell them “load up” and they’ll jump in. I would like to be able to open their kennel, say load up, and have hem go straight to the truck and get in the box without me walking them. Right now they wanna take off and do laps around the yard and have me cussing at myself for trying it. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to do it, other than my own slackness in training. My other pet peeve, that is also my fault due to lack of training, is that every dog tries t dump when I open the box. It’s an hour ride to my land, and there’s a gas station 5 minutes from there that I collar up at. It’s always a pain because when I open the box every dog wants to bum rush out. Like I said, this all comes down to me not doing what I need to do on my end.
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Over time my dogs learn to go get in the truck, I always have the tail gate down and box open, my old dogs I would collar up while they were on the chain and unsnap them and they would go straight to the truck parked in the front about 200 yds from the kennel, I was also hunting dang near 7 days a week back then and only had 5 dogs, so it was more repetition than me training, I run an EXTREMELY tight ship, my dogs must walk a line in the discipline dept., it all starts at home, you can't get to the woods and get mad at a dog for doing something and then start trying to fix the problem in the field, I don't allow any unnecessary barking on the chain or in the box, one thing that makes me so mad is dogs rushing the gate when I open the box, I have a good whooping stick and will crack one across the nose while yelling get back or I'll pop them with the gate of the box if they stick their head out, my best friend is bad about opening his box and just letting his dogs all bust out, that's where problems start, I take mine out one at a time and leash them up and then cast them, having a handle is a must for me, I've gotten rid of dogs before because they wouldn't handle and couldn't take the discipline required to put a handle on one and would flip out, almost like they didn't have the ability to learn...
Thanks for the tips, I’m going to start working more on both of those things. When I hunt I don’t cast, I walk hunt and take everything that is in the box. Normally I just open the doors and let them all out. If you were hunting like me would you just let them out one at a time?
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To teach them manners and put a handle on them, YES, if you have enough leashes, leash each one up to trees and the tail gate and collar up or while your getting your stuff ready, it's not going to hurt a thing, more than likely it will help, and further establish your role as the alpha/pack leader...
