How to handle a dog quit hunting?

[Shotgun66]

Sounds like a tough one Skrag. Once you have ruled out any health issues, you might consider evaluating his feed. He might need a higher octane feed at this point in his life. I had a dog act similar one time and figured out that he wasn't drinking water because we were putting Clorox tabs in it to keep it clean. He was chronically dehydrated. Stopped the Clorox tabs and he got better.
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I have seen solid dogs that decided they were not gonna waste their time huntin with silly acting pups.
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You might also consider leaving him at home a few times and hunting without him. Come home and make sure he smells hog on you and knows you went huntin w/out him. You could haul him and turn the others loose and make him watch. Maybe it would relight his fire.
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It is my opinion/observation that certain dogs can be very intelligent/complex creatures and require us to out think them. Intelligence is a common trait in the good ones. It sounds like you have a good one.
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Just a few ideas to consider. Hope you get him figured out.

[l.h.cracker]

Did he get on a bad hog prior to this new behavior? One of my best dogs got whipped up pretty darn bad by a rank boar hog last summer and I believe that he broke a rib or two it took him several months to come round again and get back to his old self.He got cut which was nothing new but long after the cuts healed and there were no visible problems he was still off.I had an idea that his ribs were an issue and put him up for a while.

[Skrag]

Did he get on a bad hog prior to this new behavior? One of my best dogs got whipped up pretty darn bad by a rank boar hog last summer and I believe that he broke a rib or two it took him several months to come round again and get back to his old self.He got cut which was nothing new but long after the cuts healed and there were no visible problems he was still off.I had an idea that his ribs were an issue and put him up for a while.

He is a lose baying dog and always has been. He may have gotten a poke a handful of times in his life bot not recently.

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[Skrag]

Sounds like a tough one Skrag. Once you have ruled out any health issues, you might consider evaluating his feed. He might need a higher octane feed at this point in his life. I had a dog act similar one time and figured out that he wasn't drinking water because we were putting Clorox tabs in it to keep it clean. He was chronically dehydrated. Stopped the Clorox tabs and he got better.
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I have seen solid dogs that decided they were not gonna waste their time huntin with silly acting pups.
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You might also consider leaving him at home a few times and hunting without him. Come home and make sure he smells hog on you and knows you went huntin w/out him. You could haul him and turn the others loose and make him watch. Maybe it would relight his fire.
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It is my opinion/observation that certain dogs can be very intelligent/complex creatures and require us to out think them. Intelligence is a common trait in the good ones. It sounds like you have a good one.
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Just a few ideas to consider. Hope you get him figured out.

That's the puzzling part for me. He acts the same as always. Full of energy and ready to go. Always ready to load up.

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[lacrash]

did u change his dog food?

[Skrag]

did u change his dog food?

Went from Rex to sport mix a while back. If vet checks out good my next step will be going back to rex

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[Goose87]

It could be a number of things, everything mentioned already makes good sense and is a good place to start. My question is, is that a known trait for that line of dogs or the yard it came off of or one of his ancestors, my reason in asking is, I once hunted with a group of me who had a family of dogs they had bred up over the years that were all known to have a slump around 2.5 years, it usually lasted around 3 months, I always heard them mention it, well a man in the group give his son a dog that was very good at a young age I hunted with the sucker and was impressed, about 6 months later I went hunting with them and you couldn't have give me the dog, well the son kept complaining about him that he had been like that for a month, one of the men told him to sit him up for a couple of months, well instead of doing what they told him he give the dog to some people for a yard dog, about 6 months later my friend gets word of the dog being a pet so he calls the guy who give him away and ask he if here ok with him trying to get the dog from the people, he agreed and long story short he went and got the dog and he wound up making a phenomenal dog, ole boy would always just shake his head and kick himself in the butt every time he hunted with him, so I guess  in all that rambling might want to look into his background if you don't already know it.

[Skrag]

It could be a number of things, everything mentioned already makes good sense and is a good place to start. My question is, is that a known trait for that line of dogs or the yard it came off of or one of his ancestors, my reason in asking is, I once hunted with a group of me who had a family of dogs they had bred up over the years that were all known to have a slump around 2.5 years, it usually lasted around 3 months, I always heard them mention it, well a man in the group give his son a dog that was very good at a young age I hunted with the sucker and was impressed, about 6 months later I went hunting with them and you couldn't have give me the dog, well the son kept complaining about him that he had been like that for a month, one of the men told him to sit him up for a couple of months, well instead of doing what they told him he give the dog to some people for a yard dog, about 6 months later my friend gets word of the dog being a pet so he calls the guy who give him away and ask he if here ok with him trying to get the dog from the people, he agreed and long story short he went and got the dog and he wound up making a phenomenal dog, ole boy would always just shake his head and kick himself in the butt every time he hunted with him, so I guess  in all that rambling might want to look into his background if you don't already know it.

Yeah no idea about his line. But I can assure you he won't leave this yard. Hahaha.

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[Skrag]

Just an update. Vet said internal hemroid. And it is probably causing pretty good amount of pain in his whole back end. The particular dog has almost no pain tolerance as well, what i mean is i have seen him carry his leg due to a big thorn in the pad of his foot. Script of antibiotics for 10 days.

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[l.h.cracker]

Good news glad vet was able to diagnose the problem.

[Skrag]

Good news glad vet was able to diagnose the problem.

Yeah not 100% sure that is what is going on but that is all he found.

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[hyan]

Has he ever bin worked over by a pig I have seen top shape dogs get worked by a hog and run the other way from a pig after that

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[hyan]

Never mind just read I.h crackers post

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