Hello guys,
I am picking up a pup I am wanting to train for coyote decoying next weekend and have a question about e collars. Do you need GPS for it? Also, what brand? I have been told to get Garmin and Dogtra.
Thanks for the help.

Jon

I don't GPS is a necessity, I think you would only really need this if you were hunting in a very dense foliage with limited sight lanes.

I’m going to respectfully disagree with Stugotz, although I would not invest a lot of money in a gps system before you know if your dog will cut it. How old is the dog your getting?

Just got him today. He will be 2 months old the first.

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Jon

You aren’t going to take him this spring are you?

No, I will wait till he is older.

What part of Oklahoma are you in?

I'm in Hennessey, straight east of Stillwater on 51 about 45 minutes.

Jon

Get a good handle on your dog before you spend a ton of money on a collar system. You want a dog that will handle on or off the dog collar. You want your dog to recall at a whistle or a sound, not just a tone or vibration...
I used a coyote hide and drug it around for my pups to get used to before we went "live".
Good luck man....make it fun and keep it short in the beginning, end on a high note.

Thanks that’s great advice. I will do that.


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Jon

A good obedience course will give you the basics as far as recalls, stays and heeling
all things that will make your dog a great dog, having your dog in control through farm yards and pastures really impressed the farmer/rancher. Then you can work on reinforcing at distance outside the training facility. I trained bird dogs and was a judge at performance tests. A trained dog will respond to lips on a whistle, if you have to raise your voice it isn't trained. Dogs know how to hunt training teaches them to hunt for you and builds a bond with your.

If you get a collar learn how to train with it, not punish with it.

I am working with him now on just sit,heels and stay. He has the heel and sit down pretty weil so far. I am just using my voice now and am getting ready to introduce the whistle here next month. He will only be 3 months on March 1 so I am not trying to do to much for now. I will get him solid on the voice commands before moving on. The ecollar is not even ordered yet. I welcome advice you guys have for me. My past dog training was with pointers and beagles. I always had older trained dogs to run them with. This is going to be new to me after the obedience training is nailed down.

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Jon

You can teach a dog to come back to the tone with 2 hot dog wieners and 10 minutes.

Just my opinion here. My dogs have manners but the main thing for me is that a dog doesn’t look to me as a security blanket. I don’t have a sit command because it’s not beneficial on a stand. I rarely have to tone them back, they kind of develop a style. I do occasionally have to tone one but it’s rare. The other thing that is a must for me is when I say “get back” my dogs get beside me so I have a safe shot. I also say get back when I’m washing down kennels and they stay back and don’t try to go through the gate so that is kind of my “stay command.” Just my two cents.

Thanks for the info. I like the idea of the getting out of the way on the shot. You mentioned that you rarely have to tone them back. Everyone I ask about training them is just to get them in front of coyotes and they will figure it out. Well there has to be more to it than that. When do they know to get after them and when to come back? Sure they might pick it up but I bet there are several butt kickings for the newbie dog. I am fine with that and I know the more coyotes they are exposed the better but when is the right time to put them in a live event? Sorry with all the questions

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Jon