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looking for opinions. Toning a dog away from the tree versus leading the dogs away. Let me know what you think???

my dogs will walk out from a tree just by telling them, come on lets go, they dont need to be leashed they will walk out right right beside you. i dont know how they were trained but how ever it was done it, it is real nice. my younger dogs do this also but i think they are just following my older dogs because i have never taught them that.

I agree with ferjr

mine do the same and it is super nice.


Mike

Teach them as pups to come then when you hunt them they will come off a tree by just calling them. I have 11 week old pups that will come as far as they can hear me call them by name. There is no reason to have it any other way. Dewey

I only tone my dogs off the game if I physically cant get there because the terrain or if they have gone onto private property that I cannot go to. On occasion I will tone a lost dog just to make sure he knows the hunt is over and he needs to return.

dwalton wrote:Teach them as pups to come then when you hunt them they will come off a tree by just calling them. I have 11 week old pups that will come as far as they can hear me call them by name. There is no reason to have it any other way. Dewey

That is the only way to own a dog. I am the alpha dog and I say when it's time to hunt and when it's time to go home or find something else to hunt. Proper obedience training when young saves many headaches later.