EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

got a new pen dog from a good guy that has great pen dogs but this one here ive had him bout a month now and he wont let me come near him he just runs away...what is the best way y'all know to get a dog to get to know u and trust you i dont have all day to spend with him since i work

I got a cur pup 6 months old that I kept off a litter of 10 pups. 8 of the pups that I got rid of are no problem. The male I kept and a female I gave to MrsLouisianaHogDog  Do Not  like to be touched.
They are not skid dish. They are happy, tail waggin, follow you anywhere dogs. They won't run off on you, They just don't want to be touched. When it comes time to put mine up , I open the kennel door
and walk in first and he follows me in waggin his tail. He comes to me when I call him but right out of
touching range. If I do want to handle him, I'll step towards him and he will lay down waggin his tail.
Never had a dog that just hates being touched. I started walking him on a lead and he's doing fine. I'm trying treats to get him to come ALL THE WAY to me but the jury is still out on that. Maybe
MrsLouisianaHogDog can comment on her female pup. I didn't mean to hijack your thread but I figured
I could relate to your dilemma.

oh he wont follow me or anything he trys to run away the guy told me if he gets of his chain i wont ever catch his so idk

Time....time....time!

If he's on a chain that's good. Grab the chain and pull the dog to you at feeding time. Just pet on it for a few seconds every day. Try treats too. Eventually it may come around.

If the man told you that you wouldn't catch him if he got off his chain then how would it make a pen dog?do you want to chase him down every time you put him in pen?

i put him in the pen when i got him and he didnt do anything i figured it was because he was scared and it being a new place..now i did watch a video of him the first time they put him in the bay pen an he bayed his ass off so i dont know

The pup jimco is referring to, I started off with her in a kennel here. I quickly realized that that was a bad deal for her, because she would constantly hight tail it to her dog house and hide until I turned my back, lol, then she'd be right behind me. I decided to move her to a nice light puppy chain spot to see if that would help with her confidence. I have indeed noticed improvement in her over all demeanor since being on a chain. She is VERY confident when I watch her from afar, and barks ALOT lol. It's just when I approach her head on, she commando crawls away from me as fast as she can, but then I turn my back to her, and there she is right behind me lol. I've just been doing a lot of baby talking, and when I pour her feed, I grab her chain and pull her to me and talk to her and pet her whether she likes it or not. I'm just being patient with her and not letting her ever feel any negative or frusterated energy from me during this process or I feel she will regress. A lot of patience.

great point...pups and dogs can not be fooled...get in the right frame of mind like MrsLouisianaHogDog is saying any time you mess with the pup...the more time you can spend with it the better...as far as making a completion bay dog I don't think it can compete with the best because of this shyness....just my feeling...