Re: How do you use and train trapline dogs?
[Re: kytrapper]
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07/23/21 12:42 PM
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Thanks for this thread, I may be in a position to have a trap line dog soon so this is helpful info for me too.
Couple questions, is your trap line dog a family pet as well, and do you ever have trouble with one cutting a fresh coyote track and taking off after it thinking it’s in a trap when it’s not?
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Re: How do you use and train trapline dogs?
[Re: Bob]
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07/23/21 12:48 PM
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Thanks for this thread, I may be in a position to have a trap line dog soon so this is helpful info for me too.
Couple questions, is your trap line dog a family pet as well, and do you ever have trouble with one cutting a fresh coyote track and taking off after it thinking it’s in a trap when it’s not? Mine is a Mountain cur and likes to pal around with kids. He has quite a bit of trailing blood in him but I've never seen where he decided to really lock down and trail a coyote. He gets pretty "birdy" when he's in a lot of fresh coyote sign but I've not had him try to trail one. Perhaps a dog with more hound blood than mine would attempt that. I really think (but can't prove) that an animal in a trap leaves a different type of odor than one not in a trap. As I watch police dogs work, their handlers always say when they are tracking a fleeing suspect that the dogs detect a different odor from someone panicked/fleeing. Perhaps its the same with an animal in a trap.
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Re: How do you use and train trapline dogs?
[Re: kytrapper]
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07/23/21 01:10 PM
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That makes a lot of sense, I imagine the dog can smell the difference in the pheromones released when a critter is under stress
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Re: How do you use and train trapline dogs?
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07/23/21 09:30 PM
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The biggest thing to having a good dog is using it. If you go without the dog once you are not helping the dog. You have to give up success to let the dog learn. Once it knows what is going on you will be much more successful than with out it. If you run a dog every day all day, trapping for three to four months when it is turning a year old it will start to have a clue. The more they are used the better they get. Hunting and trapping is the same thing to a dog. Breaking them from getting in traps is easy, let them get in them. I do not think you can start a dog to early. You can let him get whipped to early though.
Last edited by MJM; 07/23/21 09:33 PM.
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