I was trying to show the use of the collar in that picture. That is the younger dog Reba. That is her rabbit point. When she is on birds, she really leans into the point and her rear legs are shaking. I just started using her to find rabbits and she is getting pretty good at it. This next quail season, I am going to try and put her with a quail hunting guide that FalconBoy and I know. She has done a lot of quail hunting, but, she needs to be sharpened up on holding the point. She likes to creep in.
Now my question to you is what do you do when your dog is 1000 yards away from you and can't hear you, or see you and the check leash won't reach that far.
I whistle, as soon as my dog heares the whistle he comes running, if you arent that good at whistling the buy a whistle. Good whistles can be heard from anywhere within a 1/2 mile and your dog really doesnt need to be that far from you, if he's flushing game a mile away your bird might get it but good luck trying to find her
And Chad i dont think an electric collor is an abusive instrument, in fact ive seen several dogs trained very well with them. I just dont think you should need to.
Other than that thank you guys for the check leash idea. It worked great. My dog now flushes game and pulls off of it almost as soon as it gets running. Then he stays a good distance away from the animal and waits for me to shoot it it, when the animal goes down he gets about ten feet from it and makes a ruckis so i can find it. I taught him not to actually pick it up because i figured that a rapter sitting on top of its kill wouldnt be to keen on that
Last Edit: May 6, 2008 20:22:13 GMT -5 by aklearner
I have a jrt pup that I am in the middle of training. He is so fast that it is hard to keep up with him. He is very inteligent and has good instinct. I am afraid that if I take him off of a tether he will run off. Would an electric collar be the solution to this if I trained him to it? If this could be a solution, what is a good brand to buy and what are some ways to train to an e collar? thanks for the help, and sorry if I posted this in the wrong place.
I would say that no, an e-collar is not the first solution. JRT's are TERRIERS; they are very smart and very food-motivated and if you train them to get a good, consistent recall then you should be safe.
'Come' is the most important que a dog can know, and you should never stop rewarding for it. Make sure you never associate the command with something negative (i.e. dog was bad so you say 'Rover, come here!' only to punish him or lock him in a crate.) That will only teach him NOT to come
If this is a puppy then you have a lot to work with, and an e-collar shouldn't be needed. If you are to train with one, then you want one that either has a warning tone or a warning vibrate. You associate the vibrate with the shock--give cue, if the dog doesn't respond use the tone/vibration. If the dog STILL doesn't respond then he gets a zap. Soon all you should ever need is the tone. The e-stim should only rarely be necessary.
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