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Other Hunting => Bird Dogs => Topic started by: Machias on January 13, 2019, 09:15:31 AM

Title: Dog restraint
Post by: Machias on January 13, 2019, 09:15:31 AM: Anyone have a slick way to hold your dog or restrain them to pull quills or do other doctoring, other than brute force? Thanks!
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Post by: lokidog on January 13, 2019, 10:15:23 AM: Homemade pot dog biscuits?
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Post by: Machias on January 13, 2019, 10:18:42 AM: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: ribka on January 13, 2019, 11:29:47 AM: I wrap in a sturdy blanket and lay on top. Lay next to a wall or have someone help

Give tasty snacks while doing and praise them. Wear a good
Pair leather gloves and have fun :tup:

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Post by: hollymaster on January 13, 2019, 11:48:53 AM: Tight dog burrito, downers and an assistant. Good luck. :tup:
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Post by: WAcoyotehunter on January 13, 2019, 01:02:47 PM: Tie them off short to the hitch and go to work. It's really hard to hold a dog down
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Post by: wildweeds on January 13, 2019, 01:04:20 PM: I hunt with my vet..... nighty night juice, he packs enough stuff along to do surgery if needed.
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Post by: Pegasus on January 13, 2019, 02:36:24 PM: I have had to do it twice in the field with a big chocolate lab. Luckily I had a leatherman's tool with pliers. Sat on top of the dog on his front shoulders with his head between my legs. Not fun but it worked. Two weeks later he went after another porky and I followed the same routine. I had thought he learned his lesson but he never did. Still better than when my GSP went after a skunk.
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Post by: Machias on January 13, 2019, 06:57:01 PM: Thanks everyone. Wife gave me a hand and we got them all out. I tied a rag around his eyes so he couldn't see the pliers coming. :)
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Post by: idaho guy on January 14, 2019, 09:23:14 AM: you be nice to jj!!has he eaten his waterbucket yet? :chuckle: Warning his mom got into a skunk last bear season it must run in the family. Never had any porky problems but there is a first for everything :tup:
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Post by: Machias on January 14, 2019, 09:37:04 AM: Quote from: idaho guy on January 14, 2019, 09:23:14 AM
you be nice to jj!!has he eaten his waterbucket yet? :chuckle: Warning his mom got into a skunk last bear season it must run in the family. Never had any porky problems but there is a first for everything :tup:

He cracks me up with his water bucket. I have stainless steel buckets so the last couple of days he hasn't bothered it...but then that could be becasue his mouth is a bit sore!! :) He's a nice handling dog. I really apprciate it!
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Post by: bigdave on January 14, 2019, 09:40:00 AM: Fred probably knows....but for others who read this. You have to get all of them out. Especially, those in the chest area. They are designed to pull into the flesh when the dog moves. I've seen them work through the chest cavity and come out in the armpit pointy end first. If they hit anything vital, dog is in serious trouble down the road. I'd rather cut a little to get them out than have one work into the lungs/heart and kill the dog. I've done it myself but if you can afford the sedation and a vet, totally worth it. I had lots of Porkies around the house for a while, after the dog got into one on the front porch, I started dispensing lead pills. :twocents:
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Post by: idaho guy on January 14, 2019, 09:56:29 AM: Quote from: Machias on January 14, 2019, 09:37:04 AM
Quote from: idaho guy on January 14, 2019, 09:23:14 AM
you be nice to jj!!has he eaten his waterbucket yet? :chuckle: Warning his mom got into a skunk last bear season it must run in the family. Never had any porky problems but there is a first for everything :tup:

He cracks me up with his water bucket. I have stainless steel buckets so the last couple of days he hasn't bothered it...but then that could be becasue his mouth is a bit sore!! :) He's a nice handling dog. I really apprciate it!

:tup: Hope you can get on some game soon
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Post by: Jonathan_S on January 14, 2019, 10:01:37 AM: Quote from: WAcoyotehunter on January 13, 2019, 01:02:47 PM
Tie them off short to the hitch and go to work. It's really hard to hold a dog down

:yeah: if a dog is determined to resist, ya ain't holding them down