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young dog running question
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:45 am
by simple pleasure kennels
he is so fast gets ahead then on a tough check comes back to other dogs tracking to him? good scenting does not show up my friend said he is 17 months old
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:18 pm
by full circle kennel
SOLO him.....
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:24 pm
by danny vansickle
excactly right,then after you solo him,solo him some more.also run him with a dog he can control.a younger dog or slower.
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:28 pm
by simple pleasure kennels
these dogs are slower he gets way out front. on a tough check goes back them bringing up the rear.
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:04 pm
by Big River Beagles S
solo solo solo then maybe speed your pack up just kidding, I had a pup couple years back I would run with an old slow dog that did the same thing. So I soloed him and a littermate then braced them up for 6 months or so.
dog running queston
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:28 pm
by Big Head
I have been having a similar problem but with older dogs being run in big packs... I run with 3 other guys and they want to turn out everything they have when we go and there are two or three different speeds of dog in the group... When the faster dogs get ahead and have a check the slower group is still coming on the same track... The dogs up front come back and honor the slower dogs whom they believe have found the line they lost only to find out they are just sucking hind tit....LOL After a season of this I have seen the faster dogs stop paying so much attention to the slower dogs... In the end I feel the handlers are the ones that need to learn how to match dogs up for the best possible running.... If your fast dog and the pack are both running the rabbit and one causes the other problems related to speed I don't think soloing will straighten that out... sounds like the fast dog is already soloing..... You just can't run Volkswagens against Porsches even though they have similar engines...
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:01 pm
by bobs beagles
tony solo time is this a new dog?
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:14 am
by Bill Mills
If he is sucking back to the other dogs I would solo him until hes real independent.Just curious how does he do with dogs his own speed?
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:49 am
by simple pleasure kennels
hey Bob this is a buddys dog at work here. he is a big one 16 or so looks fast.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:51 am
by coolbrze
Solo him is my opinion also. He needs to learn to run more on his own, not just blow out down the trail and lose it, then come back to the other dogs. I've got an 8 mo. old Indian Hills pup doing the same thing. I'm soloing about 4 times to every 1 time I brace or pack him now. It's working pretty well.