TRYING SOMETHING NEW (FOR ME AT LEAST)

[nosightsneeded]

IAM TRYING A NEW WAY TO TRASH BREAK A PUP OF GOATS AND DEER. I WENT OUT TODAY AND BOUGHT A LITTLE PYGMY GOAT (ABOUT 18 POUNDS) AND I PLAN ON LEAVING IT IN THE YARD TO RUN FREE NEXT TO THE KENNELS. WHEN I BROUGHT IT INTO THE YARD THE PUP WENT APE POOP BUT SETTLED DOWN AFTER A FEW STERN WORDS. I LET THE GROWN DOG OUT AND LET HIM SEE THE GOAT AND HE DIDN'T PAY IT ANY ATTENTION. LET THE PUP OUT AND SHE KINDA GOT WOUND UP BUT WITH A LITTLE SO I CORRECTED HER.

SO AFTER 10 MINUTES THEY ALL RAN FREE TOGETHER AND THE DOGS DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO GET CLOSE THE GOAT. SO HOPING OVER THE NEXT 3 MONTHS BY HAVING THE GOAT WALKING AROUND THE KENNELS WILL HELP OUT.

[FullCryHounds]

Deer work pretty good too.

[nosightsneeded]

ha I bet my game warden would just love that

[cat and bear]

ha I bet my game warden would just love that

Mine would have to go back to town to get another ticket book

[Stubby]

I tried this with goats but I had to get rid of the goats as they were girdling all my trees and killing them so I don't know if it really worked or not.

[bency]

FullCryHounds,

How did you get to keep the deer? Can you get permits for them?

[FullCryHounds]

For a time I was licensed as a wildlife rehabilitator here in CO. Raising a deer around your hounds does make them 100% broke. My dogs don't even look at deer or elk. They treat them just like another dog. Not sure what a goat would do, they don't act or smell anything like a deer.

[Steve White]

Goat did not work for me. My best deer chaser may have gotten worse after it. Showed goat. She got close, and that thing lowered it's head and cracked her a good one. Her eyes rolled back, teeth came out, and had to pull her off the goat before killing it!

Maybe if it was around all the time?????

[nosightsneeded]

we will see. goat is tied out to the kennel

[cat and bear]

Goat did not work for me. My best deer chaser may have gotten worse after it. Showed goat. She got close, and that thing lowered it's head and cracked her a good one. Her eyes rolled back, teeth came out, and had to pull her off the goat before killing it!

Maybe if it was around all the time?????

Steve that would be my luck, borrow the neighbors goat,and dogs kill it on me I"ve heard it works, but the pups has to be raised with the goat, LOL

[briarpatch]

Many years ago a Redbone man by the name of Dorman Clouse gave training tips. He said to put a billy goat as near colored to a deer as possible in the dog pen and leave it all the time.

I never tried it, but I am reminded of the man who was told, for possum breaking, to tie a possum on a 6 foot lead to the dog and leave it in the pen. The man did this and said that a few days later the possum was leading the dog around, eating from the dog food dish and sleeping in the dog house.

briarpatch

[azcoondogs]

I have tried it with coyotes. When i ran fox in ca I would catch a coyote in a trap and through it in the dog kennels with the other dogs and after a few days I could dump them on one that ran across the road and they wouldnt even look at the ground. The hard part was keepin it from jump out of the kennel or diggin out, But once its gone after a few months they would start runnin them again but would stop when they came to a road

[Liz ODell]

I've heard about keeping a critter around that you don't want the dogs to run, it sounds good in theory but then when I stop to consider the fact that my dogs don't bother my housecats but still run feral and bobcats just fine...well I think it just breaks them off of that particular animal. I have also known people that had pet coons that the dogs would not bother but they still ran coons just fine. Maybe it works for some dogs...?

[Melanie Hampton]

When Brisco was a pup, we had a doe hit on the road in front of the house.. The fawn hung around.. it would spend the day out in the pastures with one of my mares (she seemed to adopt it) and at night it would come in and sleep next to Brisco's doghouse.. He didn't chase deer.. He didn't seem to figure out that you could.. Long after the deer left, he discovered the joy of deer chasing So at the time it did work..

Never can figure out why it seemed to work with him and not with the cat issue..

[Mike Leonard]

You need a big old stinky rutted up billy goat. Because when them big stinky bucks start to rut them hounds are going to say , now that's adeer! CU later!