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Hillbilly:
JW, I had one beagle that would point grouse (I killed several with him) and tree coons, squirrels, and possums by scent like a coonhound. Only beagle I ever had that would tree. He was a good rabbit dog, too.

JW_Halverson:
Another good thing about beagles...chick magnets at the local park.  Ain't but one woman ever made that could resist the charms of a brown-eyed, flop-eared beagle and she was a anti-hunting vegetarian cat lover to boot!

Hillbilly:
Yeah, I used to haul a bluetick coonhound around in the truck seat with me when I was a teenager cruising the town-ol' Sue broke the ice with a lot of girls. :) It was funny when I would pull up to the drive-through at Burger King and she would stick her head out the window and let loose that big bluetick bawl into the speaker. ;D She liked double cheeseburgers with no onion....

mullet:
 JW, when I got my first Lab, she came from a buddy that had Trials champions in the US and Canada. When he was teaching me to train my dog the one thing he said was the command"Stay" was redundant and gave the dog one more word to learn and try to second guess you. He said the command " sit", meant the same thing. If it was sitting' it was "staying". Labs can learn around 140 words in their vocabulary and the more they understand the more they want to do what they want. Ever had one see you put on Camo's and sneak out the back door and find her sitting in your truck? It's cool, unless you are going Deer hunting.

JW_Halverson:
I know what ya mean about trying to sneak out to hunt without the dog.  Even went so far as to move all the hunting clothes to the garage and wearing my park service uniform out to the garage so she would think I was going to work.  Didn't cut any ice with her, she knew what was going on. 

The fact that they can learn 140 words is amazing, but when you then realize that they also have MASTERED our facial expression, body posture, gestures, intonation and inflection, you will come to understand that dogs know us better than we know ourselves.  There is a fair chance you can pull off a lie to your wife, but your hound will throw down a red b.s. flag on your play before you're half done.  At least the dog will forgive and forget.   O:)

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