I have a friend who recently posted on a social site that his gundog has a good whistle recall off all game and distractions except deer.He wanted advice on how to curb this behaviour with deer so far the comments he has recieved from others are thus...
" Try the water pistol method rob, take the dog near some deer an keep him on the lead make him sit and give the stay command if he makes a move give him a squirt in the face. Keep doing it everyday an when he improves try him with the lead off do it slowly. This is how i trained my dog not to chase livestock so it should work with deer."
In my opinion this would only reinforce the dogs ' stay' and not really have any association with the fact that the dog was near deer and therefore was being corrected to 'leave the deer'. Or is that just my take on this ?
I've never really come across a dog that only chases deer in specific and not any large game regardless.
Any suggestions on a more viable method ?
Whata ya mean Randy??? Squirt guns don’t work? Last time I deer hunted a squirt gun worked wonders, the deer ran away every time…but so did the dog…
Anyways, where I live, anyone can shoot a dog if it is chasing a deer, I have a lot of deer around my house (and also a lot of people with guns), maybe there is better ways but, it is a life and death thing here, like Randy said, I used an e-collar.
And where would you find a herd of deer just standing around anyways?
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I think E-collars, unfortunately, are illegal in the UK (along with most other sensible training tools).
Your friend needs to9 find a way to give a negative association with chasing deer. I'm not suggesting anything inparticular but would some kind of noise aversion be legal and work>
Just be glad it's in the UK and not the US this is happening, Over here a dog chasing deer (or any other game animals) or livestock even can be shot and killed.
Chasing deer off, and running deer are two different things in these parts.
Any dog caught running deer do get shot on sight, or I should say it's legal to do so......God save the precious deer so we can shoot them!
No e-collars? What's next?!!! No leashes or collars allowed at all?
Don't know Laura, a bit of rock salt in the dogs butt would put him off deer!
Otherwise keep throwing food at him I guess.
"And where would you find a herd of deer just standing around anyways?"
Though it's slowed down a bit with two dogs, come visit my backyard Scott. They're worse then having rodents in the barn.
Come to think of it, if the economy goes down hill any more, venison is probably going to be the dog food of choice.
And where would you find a herd of deer just standing around anyways?
Unfortunately, almost any afternoon in my yard... A few weeks ago I looked out the kitchen window at 4:30 in the afternoon - broad daylight, and counted 4 doe and five yearlings/fawns... Brazen little hussies!
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