Donna R. Raybon
Loving the herd life
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This is old timer trick to deal with misbehavior .... get a five gallon bucket and fill with empty plastic pop bottles. Into each bottle, drop about three or four gravel. You want enough weight to be easy to throw, make noise, but won't hurt anything. Put the bucket(s) of loaded bottles where handy. Catch dog doing something wrong and hurl bottle at him with 'NO!' Used this a lot on both the LGD puppies and in training BC sheep trialing. After a few days, it got so that all I had to do was shake a bottle with rocks in it and dog knew to stop doing whatever it was doing and go find something else to do.
Another, is to put about fifteen or more feet of light weight parachute cord on collar so you can easily catch pup and all they need is a quick jerk on the line if caught in the act of doing something wrong and again 'NO.'
It is all about timing and you have to actually catch the pup THINKING about doing something wrong right when they begin to act upon it.
If unsupervised, I would not leave a young dog where they can get to any type of poultry. Just too tempting a play toy!!
Another, is to put about fifteen or more feet of light weight parachute cord on collar so you can easily catch pup and all they need is a quick jerk on the line if caught in the act of doing something wrong and again 'NO.'
It is all about timing and you have to actually catch the pup THINKING about doing something wrong right when they begin to act upon it.
If unsupervised, I would not leave a young dog where they can get to any type of poultry. Just too tempting a play toy!!