Young dogs trashing

[Bowhunter1994]

What do you do when a young dog trashes! I just started hunting him (1 year old) he has been on hogs in the pen but just getting in the woods since deer season is over with. He has found 2 hogs on his own, but lately I have been hunting him in fields and he loves chasing jack rabbits.
I don't want to shock him off them because he is hunting!! I don't want to shut him down hunting wise until he figures it out ( hog wise). 
Am I messing him up?
What would you do? Like I said he is started and knows what a hog is and has found two on his own.


Sonny

[Shotgun wg]

Let him hunt. After he has been on a few more pigs with lots of praise I would start working on the jack rabbit issues. But then again I got a bunch of dillo dogs I'm still trying to get lined out.


Shotgun
Arkansas

[Bowhunter1994]

Up anyone else


Sonny

[Judge peel]

I wouldn't shock him till it starts getting more frequent or a little old can take the hunt out of them if shocked to much to young

[txsteve85]

I trashbroke a pup by the time she was 14 months old.
I just set the trashbreaker low just to get her attention.
never had to fry her. She turned out fine.

[aussie black mouth curs]

Shock him. Anything else just reinforces the bad behaviour.  He will still hunt.  Go somewhere you know there are jackrabbits and put the collar on him turn it up to "light the grass under him" when he's trashing zap him until he stops and chase him back to the truck.  If it makes him shy on pigs rest him for a fortnight or so and then reintroduce him to them.

[jdt]

i agree , burn his ass on a rabbitt and then put him on hogs and give him lots of encouragement !

[T-Bob Parker]

Shock him. Anything else just reinforces the bad behaviour.  He will still hunt.  Go somewhere you know there are jackrabbits and put the collar on him turn it up to "light the grass under him" when he's trashing zap him until he stops and chase him back to the truck.  If it makes him shy on pigs rest him for a fortnight or so and then reintroduce him to them.

How long is a fortnight? 20 days?

[Black Smith]

Once they find hogs own there own then you are better off breaking them ASAP be cause it get harder the more you allow it!!!

[Reuben]

just drop him out where there is fresh hog sign or turn him in to the dogs that struck a pig...after a couple of times of that turn him out on rabbits and let him learn how bad a jack rabbit can be...

[aussie black mouth curs]

Shock him. Anything else just reinforces the bad behaviour.  He will still hunt.  Go somewhere you know there are jackrabbits and put the collar on him turn it up to "light the grass under him" when he's trashing zap him until he stops and chase him back to the truck.  If it makes him shy on pigs rest him for a fortnight or so and then reintroduce him to them.

How long is a fortnight? 20 days?

serious??  a cricket team plus two....

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[T-Bob Parker]

Shock him. Anything else just reinforces the bad behaviour.  He will still hunt.  Go somewhere you know there are jackrabbits and put the collar on him turn it up to "light the grass under him" when he's trashing zap him until he stops and chase him back to the truck.  If it makes him shy on pigs rest him for a fortnight or so and then reintroduce him to them.

How long is a fortnight? 20 days?

serious??  a cricket team plus two....

14

Sorry, we americans stopped saying fortnight when powdered wigs and wooden teeth went out of vogue! 

[Rick B]

I let them pups and young dogs hunt what ever they won't. They will figure out what you won't them to do soon enough. If it becomes a problem then they will get some shock therapy.


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[Goose87]

I wouldn't do anything until he has found more hogs or the trashing becomes more and more common. I then would put a shock collar on him at the house for a week or so to get him used to it then take him hunting as normal. As soon as you know for certain he is trashing give him a little tickle with the shocker. I would try it on low setting first then get hotter if needed. And don't say anything to him as he is trashing make him think that off game is what is " tickling" him. Good luck

[Bo Pugh]

I would not shock one of my 1 yr old dogs . I think it's good for a young dog to want to run anything they come across. It teaches them to when you let them out it's hunt time you don't want them thinking when you let them out their fixen to get their ass burnt. I would let them run whatever until I though they knew they really wasn't suppose to be running trash. And a lot of dogs will quit running whatever and focus on what their suppose to be running with a little maturity. I'm no great dog trainer by any means but all the super dogs I have seen were trashy at 1 yr old.

[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!"

[Judge peel]

Lmao good story

[T-Bob Parker]

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!"

Hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa that's the type of old fart I've always loved playing a good game of dominoes with!

[wildchild]

Let him hunt. After he has been on a few more pigs with lots of praise I would start working on the jack rabbit issues. But then again I got a bunch of dillo dogs I'm still trying to get lined out.

X2

[Reuben]

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.

x2...

first a few bays in a pen and a few staged hunts if possible...

then just turn the young dogs out to a bay or on top of fresh hog sign...

once they know what a hog is then break them at home with fresh deer scent and a shocking collar or a cattle prod...

just take the path of least resistance...