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Originally Posted by Shotsie
I've trained and hunted with coonhounds for a couple years, and I never seen a dog match speed with a deer. That deer was either injured or sick. That's pretty dangerous as well, you might want to try breaking her off of big game like that before she gets trampled by a moose or winds up chasing a deer halfway across the state, or worse - onto a highway.
If it's a problem you can break them off of deer and other unwanted game with breaking scents, which are scents extracted from glands of whichever unwanted game you're having a problem with. You spread some of this on a rag and tie it around the dogs neck. Usually after being bombarded with this scent for a couple hours, a few days in a row, they'll never want to smell it again in their life, let alone chase after it.
Here's the scents if you need them:
http://www.fntpost.com/Categories/Hu...eaking+Scents/ |
Well that was long ago.
the game warden was threatening to kill her, cause she was such a nuisance for deer.
you are right, 1 on 1 if a moose or a deer turned to fight, it would probably just take one kick to finish the dog or injure it to such an extent that they just want to get away.
However, deer and even moose usually flee first fight last. this leaves them open to lethal attacks from large breed dogs.
Coondogs are pretty fast, they might be faster in the real bush though. Open field no dog will keep up with a moose. However put big trees in the way and the bigger animals who have to go around things more slow down.