I am not a professional dog trainer, but I love the satisfaction of training my own hounds. I see a lot of classified ads where people are looking for a pup trainer. I've asked for a good bit of advice on training and I appreciate each and every response. In all the advice I've received, I've never had anyone tell me I need to buy a pup trainer to train my hound, yet there are people everywhere looking to buy and sell pup trainers.Again, I have a Cameron pup (now 10 months old) that I've raised since he was 8 weeks old. He has more drive and desire than any dog I've ever owned. He will tree his own coon, but still tends to run deer if he can't find a coon. That is a definite flaw, and not acceptable to me. My dog has had his share of electric and whipping for running deer. i still dont trust him. he no longer barks at deer when he sees them, or at least when he's close to me and he sees them. But he does whine and gets anxious when he sees or smells deer. The other night he slipped his collar and chased a deer about 50yards without barking.....he came back to me when i called him off. I did not punish him since he came when he was called.
I have several questions:
what are the benefits of a pup trainer?
Would my dog be less likely to run trash if he was hunted with a straight dog? He has never been hunted with another dog.
And my last question for now, do you think it is still possible ( if i continue to hunt him and train him with the TriTronics Trash-breaker) that this dog can be completely broke and trusted not to run deer?
Looking at his training since the beginning, he is making progress, but I'm not experienced enough to judge the level of his progress. I have to keep in mind he was bred to run lions and I want him to run coon. One breeder of this line told me "Mr. Morris, these dogs will chase anything that runs up a tree". I was willing to accept that, but deer don't run up trees! LOL
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