If you're training a decoy dog, and you have a started dog(s), don't shoot coyotes the dogs haven't seen, let alone engaged and worked a bit. No matter what the result of your dog seeing a coyote... If you are training a decoy dog, it does them NO good for you to call in a coyote and shoot it, while the dog is smelling cow pies or sheep [beeep]. Let a few go until your dogs get in that perfect position. I only ever shot a coyote, to reward the dogs. I watched a few nice one's walk away, cause the dogs never seen them.
If you were training a coonhound and you were walking down the lane. You shine a coon up in a tree ahead of you and the dog has NO idea there is a coon anywhere around, are you going to shoot that coon out and expect to make a tree dog?
Don't be afraid to let your dogs fail. It happens. Just give them all the chances you can to succeed and if they are the right kind, they'll make dogs.
I keep dogs to catch game, you shouldn't have to catch it for them.
Take care.
If you were training a coonhound and you were walking down the lane. You shine a coon up in a tree ahead of you and the dog has NO idea there is a coon anywhere around, are you going to shoot that coon out and expect to make a tree dog?
Don't be afraid to let your dogs fail. It happens. Just give them all the chances you can to succeed and if they are the right kind, they'll make dogs.
I keep dogs to catch game, you shouldn't have to catch it for them.
Take care.