Message #497409

[barlow]

Like several of these guys mentioned . . make it easy to do the right thing and difficult to do the wrong thing. Works in most cases.

I had a young Plott once that wouldn't stop running deer. This was years ago and I couldn't afford an E-collar if I'd ever even heard of them. I went to an old timer who lived up the road from me. Guy was one eyed and in his eighties. He told me that he'd had a similar problem many years before. What he did was stop on the side of the road and pick up a deer carcass. He brought it home and cut it up, then allowed it to ripen and rot for a few more days. When all was ready he took the head and part of a ham and put it in a 55 gallon drum and forced the deer running dog inside with the putrid meat. Then he twisted the lid on and locked the dog in before taking the barrel to the top of a nearby hill that had recently been clear cut. When he rolled the barrel, dog and deer detritus over the hill the barrel began to bounce and fly and the dog began to scream and howl. It picked up speed as it went til finally it reached flat ground and struck a tree, causing the lid to shoot off and the dog to come dizzily twisting out bruised and terrified. At this point in the story the old man paused and began to belly laugh as he thought back on that day. So I asked him . . "well, did it cure the dog of running deer?" To which he replied . . "Hell no, son. Dog was totally useless, but he by God never slept in a barrel again for the rest of his life!"