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Post by randymerta on Apr 16, 2007 16:49:22 GMT -5
My airedale has a strong desire to bring a cow down to his size. My neighbor who has about 25-30 head of cattle that graze right up to my property line. My neighbor however does not keep the electric fence hot. So the cows have developed a technique to see if the wire is hot. I watch them put their ear on the line. If not hot they climb over or walk through the wire onto my yard and start chomping away. This really burns me that the wire is not hot. I really don't get too mad when one cow is in my front yard but when all of them are I really get P.O'd. Well now I let Pretzel loose and he runs them back and takes the liberty to bite a few while moving them on. Well on Saturday he took off in a mad rage and bit one cow on the ham string and the cow gave him a double hoof drop kick. Pretzel did not take a full shot but did wisen him up quite a bit. Now he goes for the bite in the rib area. My neighbor sat at my house yesterday and watched his cows bust through the fence and all he did was yell at them as I cut Pretzel loose. Pretzel run them back and I noticed he kept away from the hoof kicks and all was well. I told my neighbor that he needed to turn the juice on and save my yard because it was getting stomped down. Pretzel sure seems to be happy chomping on cows and barking agressive at them. My neighbor is a good guy and helps me all the time as I do also help him or I would be getting cross ways with him over these cows. Randy
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Post by hicntry on May 4, 2007 19:43:17 GMT -5
Randy, the big problem with a hunting dog that chases cows is when you are hunting around someone elses cows. They tend to want to shoot dogs that chase cattle so you may want to take that into consideration. Be careful putting him on the neighbors cows.
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jackie
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Post by jackie on May 4, 2007 21:11:28 GMT -5
Randy, We own our own ranch and have cattle. I agree with Godfather that you really don't want an Airedale to chase cattle, or bite them (unless needed) but, it is a great opportunity for you to constuctively teach Pretzel how to herd cattle out of your yard. You may have to put Pretzel on a long leash at first if he gets too excited to listen to your commands, a lounging line for horses works well. If you have trained him to hand signals like go left and go right, and down, you can work Pretzel back and forth behind the cattle moving the cattle out of your yard in a more orderly manner. Your neighbor will appreciate this more and may ask you at times to come help him move his cattle, giving your dog more opportunity to work and prove Airedales are the best and most versatile dogs around. We are teaching our Airedale the same thing right now, she really wants to work cattle but needs to understand we aren't just chasing them we are moving them somewhere for some reason. Also, she likes to bring the cattle to you rather than move them from behind, this is a good characteristic as well. Either way, it can be fun. We ourselves have had to shoot dogs that pack up and run our cattle and kill calves. These are mostly mongrels from small towns with no oversite, but, they are really deadly when they get together. At any rate, good luck keeping the cattle out of your yard, at least you have a helper! Jackie
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