Appreciate these thoughts and I'm much more comfortable with keeping a dog outside now. I have a carport and a set of steps the dog can get under to get out of the weather. Now I just need to find the dogs I want!
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Originally posted by STex View PostHey I have one more question on GSPs..... can you bring them around to do things off leash like on a ranch or do they tend to run off and cause you to send out a search party?
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Originally posted by STex View PostHey I have one more question on GSPs..... can you bring them around to do things off leash like on a ranch or do they tend to run off and cause you to send out a search party?
Train it with a whistle. Mine listens to the whistle 100x better than voice if she ever does wander off to far. I can sit her down and come at anytime with a whistle.
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Never had a female, but I have seen a few gun shy ones.
Mine wont run off, but he may chase a deer and forget where he needs to go back to. Get a shock collar for sure, I have a tritronics and really like it. It allows you to shock em or buzz em. Mine knows that when he is buzzed he better get his spotted tail back to me or the shock will soon follow.
X3 on the whistle. When mine was a pup, I would whistle for him before I fed him. Make him sit and lay down before I would put his bowl down. He can be on the other side of the house, asleep for hours, and when he hears me whistle his comes in like a freight rain.
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I personally prefer to train females (of any breed). Just like teaching a person to shoot, I have always been impressed how much quicker and better females pick up shooting...
They also seem to fit in socially better too... If you take your dog(s) with you to other gatherings and there are 2 males, they WILL fight. May happen to some extent with females, but it is GUARANTEED with males.
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Dodge is collar conditioned. It took some time and little by little I let him run further and further. Each time, I just beeped him three times on his collar for my signal for him to return to me. Once he returned, he was able to get a tiny treat and then was allowed to run again. As many said, I did this every single day for at least six months. Now, he runs and sometimes returns on his own, checks in, rubs against me and takes off again. The best training for Dodge was the collar and it has rarely had to used as a shocking collar. The beep and the vibrate feature works like a charm for him.
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