Worse thing for a pup

[uglydog]

And thats why there are so many different way to and methods and opinions.

Thats why this Website Works and most dont because all these different people can have a discussion and agree to disagree, and still act like gentlemen, Thats why ETHD is #1

I disagree with all of YOU.....j/K

[t.wilbanks]

I disagree with all of YOU.....j/K

Typical Woman....                                     

[KevinN]

. If hogs aren't being located, pup will find something to hunt. I just think your doing more harm than good by running hunt after hunt and not getting pup on the preffered game, this is my point.

i dont agree with that either ... if there is no hogs the dog better not bark unless he is being honest i've got a dog in my yard right now that if another dog is trashin he'll go honor him to see but if he comes back like oh chit it wasn't me .. thats dogs trashin ... an as for puppies ... that just sounds like a good chance to break em ... head them off see what they are runnin dont yell at them catch them in the act an break them you gotta be smarter then the dog if your gunna hunt it

Depending on how much the pup has been exposed to hogs, i wouldnt discipline them for trashing when they are first starting out...  IMO, they could take it as they are getting disciplined for hunting... Just get them off and move them on..

Like Bryant said, they're not born knowing what to hunt...

x3...IMO you should never break a pup from off game in the "WOODS" before they have been running hogs a few times...pup could get the wrong message which is... don't go off in the woods because it is a pain in the neck out there...the pup can actually think that it should stay by the hunter.

leave them in the dog box until you see fresh hog sign...or until the strike dogs are baying...but a little bay pen or mock hunt experience is always best prior to taking them to the woods so the pups know to bay and catch hogs...

it's all about the right moves at the right time...I like breaking the pups off of deer before they are turned loose in the woods, but only after they have bayed hogs in the pen a few times...I don't do mock hunts...lost that burning desire years ago...but there is a minimum amount of training that needs to be done...the right moves at the right time goes a long ways...sometimes it doesn't look like training because it can be something very simple. The simple things add up...the wrong moves can be a mojor setback for a pup...
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As always, lots of good points Reuben.

[TexasHogDogs]

I run my young dogs in the woods all the time even threw the dry spells.  But they know what a hog is because they have seen them and bayed them since really young in my pen .  I will break them off deer and trash as we go along.  It has never hurt my dogs to run them young with the pack dry spells are not .  It puts there legs under them gets them in great shape and man when they do hit that first hog after a dry spell its on like Donkey Kong.  Its never hurt none of mine and I dont know of any better experince dry spells are not .

[TexasHogDogs]

Its always been my experince the better dogs you run with your young dogs,  dry spells are not the better dog he will become if it is in him besides he needs to learn there not going to be a hog every time you go and learn how to deal with it the correct way instead of the wrong way than when he is older and develop bad habits that are much much hard to break because he is older.  Learn sooner than later.  Also if your older dogs are really trash broke you wont have much problems with a young dog trashing other than once are twice when he should have a ecollar on to pop him and then its over.


Anyway just my take.