Re: Trapline dog
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07/21/20 01:06 PM
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The Beav
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Keep your dog at home and you will have less issues.
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Re: Trapline dog
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07/21/20 01:19 PM
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Yukon John
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Lol, I've often thought that a dog could be very advantageous in the field. They could show almost exactly how a coyote would act/react to a set, plus they could show you where to set. JMO
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Re: Trapline dog
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07/21/20 11:42 PM
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This will be the second season for mine. Still work in progress but has come along way this summer while riding along with me doing ADC work. He's been caught a few times but that was last fall so a refresher course may be in the works before this season. The more you work with him/her, the more they understand what their job is and what you expect from them. And if your not careful, one day they may teach you a thing or two.
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Re: Trapline dog
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07/22/20 03:34 PM
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My GSP many years ago had the drift from working him on the place but the day we came on a coyote caught that he could harass he seemed to instantly pick up the importance of not having that foot caught, holding him back. Never an issue after.
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Re: Trapline dog
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07/22/20 04:42 PM
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In my opinion, there is no special instruction or training needed to make any dog a good trap line companion. all you need is a dog that has been trained to obey the basic commands of "sit", "stay" and "come." And I'm not talking about a few basic obidience lessons. I'm talking about a dog that has had daily training for a good amount of time (training and reinforcement never stop with my dogs). A dog that will sit when told and stay there until told to come. A dog that will stop whatever he is doing and come no matter what elsew is going on. It is really not hard at all to get any dog to this point. A bit of time for short daily training sessions is about it. I have been taking dogs with on the trap line for a long time. All they are on the trap line is companionship. i have often heard the line about having then show you where to set. I don't know about your dogs but if i set everywhere they took a leak I'd be out of traps by the time I finished scouting the first farm. None of my dogs have ever been caught in any trap of mine. urposely catching your own dog in your own trap seems like a good way to degrade it's trust in you. I don't advice it. I once had a pup get himself into a snare. I had cabled a fox on a two-track and told him to heel (get by my side) then sit. I went around to the other side of the fox to take a pic and the bouncing fox was too much for the pup. He broke from the sit/stay command and rushed the fox. I ha another cable hung in he other track and he hit it the same instant I yelled sit. He hit the end of the cable and did a back-flip. He got up and looked at me with wonder and respect for the awesome power he hadn't realized I had up until that point. Here he is sitting like a good boy after experiencing my telekinetic wrath. Some random trap line photos with my dogs:
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Re: Trapline dog
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07/22/20 05:10 PM
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Use whatever scents you plan to use on the line for the "Training Sets", like an aversion therapy, so he will avoid them. Make some real set's in the yard so he doesn't think all traps are above ground.
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