I live in the piny woods of East Texas and have ten acres that my wife and I and our dogs roam on. I have seen several and now kill every copperhead snake I see. I don't mind them but do not want the dogs, my wife or grandbaby to get bit. My question is how can I train my dogs to alert me to the danger. mY 5 YEAR OLD DOBERMAN somehow showed me a three foot plus hot snake just yesturday and my 6 year old female wanted to eat it after I killed it ,she was wanting it veryy bad. I now have a puppy GSD that is 2 months old and do not want him to get bit. What can I do? Have done a search but all I see is about ratle snakes.I think this would work with the older dogs but I don't want to E-collar the puppy. Will and Van Camp I did get the ppuy out of Dar and Jiva from Vom Banach. I will let you know how he turns out. Right now he is good, Maybe a little less drive for a puppy but that maybe a good thing
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It's my understanding that using the ecollar to snake proof is about the best way to do it. It allows you to correct at that very high level that you need to use for snake proofing without yanking off the dog's head, or even having him associate the correction with you.
I don't think you should be doing it to a 2 month old puppy though.
The only time my dog has ever come in contact with a snake was when we were hiking on a trail and I happened to see a little black snake slither across the trail a few yards ahead of us. I wanted to see what Gypsy would do, so I sort of hurried along until we got up to where the snake had crossed the path. Of course, Gypsy smelled it, and followed the trail over to the little ditch on the other side of the trail, where the snake was slowly crawling through the leaves and up the bank. She saw the snake and actually growled and jumped back a bit. I praised the dickens out of her for it, because I had expected her to try to get closer or something. I'm SO glad she did the right thing though.
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maybe they just need to get bit by a snake. Today we ran into a coral snake on the trail. RED the doberman who has been bit twice by copperheads left the area. Dixie wanted to get it and the pup could care less probably did not notice. After I noticed the snake and called RED he was not coming ,I got a rock after putting Dixie in a down a ways from the snake I know I did not kill it as I was concerned that RED was bit and was watching the others, anyway it got away. RED came to my call but wanted nothing to do the area as I was looking for the snake in the leaves and such. Maybe if you got a snake like a rat snake or something that would hurt the dog but not damage it and let him get bit. making sure the dog did not retaliate on the non venimous snake and kill it that would be a disaster. Well any inputs on this?
Don't bet on a dog getting snake bit and then showing them fear/respect. I've seen a number of working terriers that have been snake bit and all it did was make them obsessive about killing snakes. One dog in particular got so bad it was retired from earthwork after it's third copperhead bite. It decided snakes were much more fun. Anything more toxic than a copperhead may only require one bite to finish a dog. A copperhead bite usually only requires antibiotics and tetnaus (sp) shots. Their bite isn't usually any big deal. I learned that the hard way as a kid. I still play with the cute little critters. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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