How do I train my new lab to be a good blood trailing dog
04-07-2005 | 10:58 AM
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How do I train my new lab to be a good blood trailing dog
I am looking for ways to train my new yellow lab to blood trail wounded deer I have some info like take a tennis ball and put deer blood all over it and let the dog play with it I was just wondering if anyone else had any ideas. Thanks
04-07-2005 | 11:34 AM
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RE: How do I train my new lab to be a good blood trailing dog
I bet this will be the easiest thing you've ever done
. Dogs love to use their noses. I would even suggest just waiting until your state season starts. Tell all of your friends who hunt during all of the deer seasons to call you every time they kill one in your area. Every chance you get to take your dog to a downed deer, do it and praise him up big time. Just say the same thing to the dog every time and with great excitement, like "sniff 'em." Even if you know right where the deer is, bring the dog to the site and encourage him more than you ever have when he starts to smell the blood. Even if the deer went straight down, take the dog to the downed deer, say "sniff 'em" or whatever phrase you like, and let him wonder about until his attention goes to the downed deer. Don't show it to him or point it out to him, but let him acknowlege the dead deer. Act like you don't know it's there, and when he acknowleges it and goes to it, praise him up like he found something you were missing. Do this as many times as you possibly can, and the dog will start realizing when he smells blood that its game time. Just make it a game.
. Dogs love to use their noses. I would even suggest just waiting until your state season starts. Tell all of your friends who hunt during all of the deer seasons to call you every time they kill one in your area. Every chance you get to take your dog to a downed deer, do it and praise him up big time. Just say the same thing to the dog every time and with great excitement, like "sniff 'em." Even if you know right where the deer is, bring the dog to the site and encourage him more than you ever have when he starts to smell the blood. Even if the deer went straight down, take the dog to the downed deer, say "sniff 'em" or whatever phrase you like, and let him wonder about until his attention goes to the downed deer. Don't show it to him or point it out to him, but let him acknowlege the dead deer. Act like you don't know it's there, and when he acknowleges it and goes to it, praise him up like he found something you were missing. Do this as many times as you possibly can, and the dog will start realizing when he smells blood that its game time. Just make it a game.
04-07-2005 | 02:20 PM
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From: Ironwood, Michigan
RE: How do I train my new lab to be a good blood trailing dog
If one would go to the JGV-USA site there is a short method to train a dog to blood track. How indepth do you want to train your dog? I had a Lab (my first hunting dog) I never trained to blood trail. She picked it up from finding wounded ducks, geese, pheasants and grouse. She would blood trail just from her experience with birds. She rarely lost the deer of elk. The blood trailing done in Europe is a little more extensive. One trains their dog to find a deer from a trail at least 20 hrs old and as much as 40 hrs old when tested. Play training wouldn't be my choice. I would make it an extention of force retrieving myself (which I am doing with my dog right now). Another web site would be deersearch.org. This is strictly about blood trailing.
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