cjdavis618
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I have read the books on the training dogs, watched the videos, etc. Most all of these deal with dog obedience, recognizing behaviors and correcting and in the SSU video testing for prey drive. I guess I am ready for SSU class 202 for when I get a young pup to start from scratch someday.
How does one take a dog and "teach" him to be a good decoy dog. From what I read on here, it seems to be more of a natural progression if the dog has what it takes. Is there something that you guys do during the hunt to discourage certain behavior and the praise the parts you like. I know most of us use E collars for the dogs for simple commands which they have been taught, and those can be used to re-enforce them to do something they understand if being stubborn.
But my question is how is the dog taught that you want them to cast out, distract and then lure coyotes back. All of this without the fighting and even apprehension by some dogs. Is it as simple as letting the dog run out on his own to a certain distance to a coyote, then calling/toning him back at that time. Then doing that enough that he just keeps doing it?
Maybe a dumb question to some, but I want to put the pieces together from the normal obedience training and then the actual hunt training.
Secondly, as for hunting the coyotes. Do you think being able to "Read" coyote language has helped train the dogs, or maybe training the dogs helps to let you learn more about coyotes?
How does one take a dog and "teach" him to be a good decoy dog. From what I read on here, it seems to be more of a natural progression if the dog has what it takes. Is there something that you guys do during the hunt to discourage certain behavior and the praise the parts you like. I know most of us use E collars for the dogs for simple commands which they have been taught, and those can be used to re-enforce them to do something they understand if being stubborn.
But my question is how is the dog taught that you want them to cast out, distract and then lure coyotes back. All of this without the fighting and even apprehension by some dogs. Is it as simple as letting the dog run out on his own to a certain distance to a coyote, then calling/toning him back at that time. Then doing that enough that he just keeps doing it?
Maybe a dumb question to some, but I want to put the pieces together from the normal obedience training and then the actual hunt training.
Secondly, as for hunting the coyotes. Do you think being able to "Read" coyote language has helped train the dogs, or maybe training the dogs helps to let you learn more about coyotes?
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