communicating with your dogs in the woods

I’m required to kill every hog I can, I hunt for farmers so if I didn’t I wouldn’t have access to that land. So in that regard, I would never call a dog off of a pig if they had one. All my dogs have been in the house at some point or another so they’re all taught basic commands (sit, stay, come, etc..). Idk why I haven’t worked with them more with the alpha, I just never put much time or thought in to it.

I’ve recently started working on tone training them. I give a series of 3 beeps for them to come back. If they don’t start heading my direction I give them a hard bump, and then repeat. It’s been great so far, I’ve only used it once in the woods, and it was for a dog that was hesitating coming back across water. I gave the beeps and he jumped in and started swimming like a fish. I plan to use it when the dogs are getting close to a road or if one goes a direction that I don’t want him too. In my opinion you could never have too much control over what your dog is doing. I’m slack about it, but it wouldn’t ever hurt have them listen better or know more commands.

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