Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

Advice?

I think we're going to have to shock collar train her to our yard.  Just got off the phone with Dad who's been on both sides of the fence. He has a neighbor with a deer chasing lab, who he does not care for.   

We are PITAs.  I know....

Tabasco sauce on the nose if you catch her. And I know it sounds bad but some dogs just need a kick in the arse.

 

[CuzChickens]

Well, I've been off for a few days, and I laughed pretty hard reading through the last 10 pages.

I am currently recovering from a 200# son of a bit-scuit pig. My foot does not feel good. The pig learned some new words. I can't wait to eat the dang pig.

It dropped down to 21° last night! And you are probably all laughing because its probably already been -5° for weeks now.

Welcome back, Holm! I hope you had fun! Who am I kidding, who DOESN"T have fun on hunting trips?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Thank you Layers. She has been kicked all the way home and broom handled home. She knows the broom is business. LOL. She's fast. Too fast for me though. And I probably couldn't catch her with my boot. I just ordered an e-collar from Amazon. They weren't too bad. $30 bucks. DH has a big expensive one for pheasants which I don't like. It's just a shock collar. This Amazon one has 3 modes. Beep, Vibrate and Shock. The reviews say that their dogs didn't even really need the shock. They learned on the beep and vibrate. Anxious to get her boundaries set. I think for all the dumb stuff she's doing she is actually too smart for her own good.

She knows something is up with us today. She's acting pretty submissive towards all of us despite the leash buckle chewing incident today. Ha. Nutty *female dog*.

 

[CuzChickens]

Man, you've gotta be careful with those shock collars, my dogs had it figured out in one hour where shock was coming from. So now, when I am watching them and they know it, and the collars are on, they are angels. Collars off, or I'm out of sight? Like bogtown said........female dogs

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Man, you've gotta be careful with those shock collars, my dogs had it figured out in one hour where shock was coming from. So now, when I am watching them and they know it, and the collars are on, they are angels. Collars off, or I'm out of sight? Like bogtown said........female dogs

No!....

Please let her be not that smart.

 

[CuzChickens]

Well, one of those two dogs has a lot of Border Collie in her, so she is naturally way too smart for her own good, and I think somehow her knowledge of what was up was conveyed to the hound. Because the hound is kinda dumb....

The date stamp is off, I promise. My old camera was prehistoric. I took both of those in the past six months.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I'm worried and thinking that Sadie Mae is Border-Collie-Smart. There is a good friend of ours from the other thread. Aussiegal who trains Australian Shepherds and she gave a quick diagnosis on Sadie during her early months and said she is a level up on her trainers. LOL. She said it in a very nice way but I know this dog is too smart for us. We need to do what we need to do though. we'll get her....

 

[I Love Layers]

I'm worried and thinking that Sadie Mae is Border-Collie-Smart.  There is a good friend of ours from the other thread.  Aussiegal who trains Australian Shepherds and she gave a quick diagnosis on Sadie during her early months and said she is a level up on her trainers.  LOL.  She said it in a very nice way but I know this dog is too smart for us.   We need to do what we need to do though.  we'll get her....

Have you thought of a ground wire shock collar? That's what my relatives used with their ex hunting lab that was from abusive homes, so they couldn't kick him, to get him to not eat chickens.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Advice?

I think we're going to have to shock collar train her to our yard. Just got off the phone with Dad who's been on both sides of the fence. He has a neighbor with a deer chasing lab, who he does not care for.

We are PITAs. I know....

We use an in-ground fence to keep our dogs off the driveway and within a reasonable space. It works great so long as it is plugged in, they have their collars on and good batteries in them. Our male is not the brightest bulb, but he figures out pretty quick when the battery has run out. Oh, and they beep when they get within range of the wire in the ground, so they know when the zap is coming if they don't back off. It took our dogs one day to figure out, they didn't want to go anywhere that beep turns on. Francy was beep trained immediately after the first shock. Then she only went on the lawn to do her business and then came right back to the steps and laid down.
Did I fail to mention, the fence was put in so the dogs would not get to the poultry. Then the fence for the poultry went up to keep them from coming over to the dogs' yard.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . BC on hounds if they run deer and are stopped in the act they are breakable If they get away and are gone for a day or more they are often incurable . Yours sounds curable since she only goes for short chases . Hounds are not usually border collie smart . Just hard headed .