keep them behind a fence, ain't much else you can do unless you are willing to spend a bunch of time with aversion training
Bingo!
Dennis always keeps it short and sweet, and he is usually right. He DOES have that ability, doesn't he?
I don't think you can train this one out of them. From what I have learned, chasing is a self rewarding behavior, it feels good to them just to do it. I have personal experience in breaking one dog who LOVED to chase cars - of not doing so, very quickly, with an e-collar. As high drive as she was in when chasing cars, I would have to say she was also a very "soft" dog and it did not take much to convince her this was not her hobby of choice. Couple that with the pack mentality its a pretty potent combo. THIS is a great point - I have never dealt with the combination of a "pack" chasing "prey" and agree it would add a significant, additional problem.
If it was one dog it may be a different story, but with three I don't think there's much hope for training them to 100% before you are all old and gray.
You should have these dogs in some sort of enclosure if they are doing this kind of stuff. Its really dangerous! At the minimum you should probably have an invisible fence, although that may not work if the cars get them really cranked up.
Containment is obviously the BEST solution, but when I hear "30 acres", that is normally coupled with the unwillingness to fence or kennel dogs. The problem could be stopped overnight with enclosures and leashes.
Edited to add: It just hit me and I wanted to add for "full disclosure" this dog was completely collar wise... When the collar was on she wouldn't look at a car. No collar - all bets were off and she would chase like a mad-gal. This was before my Leeburg-ongoing-training and I did not know to put the collar off/on/etc... prior to beginning it's use.
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Re: Chasing Cars!!!
[Re: Lauren Jeffery ]
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