longhaul1xx wrote:
You never starve a dog or any other animal... Being hungry has nothing to do with a dog hunting trailing and treeing a coon... It's breed in them.. Starving it won't do anything to make it want to hunt and tree coon
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I have a similar problem right now with my hound. I have this problem with my hounds because they are trained as house pets and to walk on the leash. A couple of tricks I do to help them get over it quickly is take them to new property and don't pay attention to them. I mean do your best to look the other direction even if they are right in front of you walking. They want to go explore and they want you to come with them to say it is all right. Eventually the urge will overtake them and they'll run off.
The other thing is I drive my truck into the middle of the woods let him out and just sit in the truck until he runs off. Then I'll follow. If he doesn't run off after about an hour in the truck and home we go. Don't pay any attention to him. It takes a little while but I was able to turn the last one into a real good dog in about a year. Oh and if he does tree a coon he gets a treat when we get home. You don't have to punish dogs. Not rewarding them works better.
If anyone else has tricks/tips I'm all ears!