Hound Dog Network - After Season Actions

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4:15Pull out that chair. I'm going to grab another log, put it on the fire. We're going to get this episode started. We talk about pulling out a chair in the log. It's fall. It is time for the fire pits, friends sitting around, chatting, eating good food, and just enjoying this time of year. Which by the way, is one of my favorite times of year. When those leaves start to change, which they are now, they're starting to come down slowly. The air just changes. Especially for us as hunters, we know what it brings. Our seasons are going to start coming in. There's both seasons coming yesterday for us. I'm not a big bow hunter. It used to be

5:15avid bow hunter. That was one of my favorite things to do. Then the dogs took over. I decided I couldn't do both and be successful at both. I was counting all night and trying to bow hunt during the day. That just didn't work out. The deer season is in. They did rain all day yesterday. I don't know how successful people were here locally. Both seasons come in. We have youth day coming up this coming Saturday. That's exciting. Getting our youth involved in the outdoors. We've all said it. You keep a kid outside. You can keep you out of trouble. Coming from a small town, 1700 people. You knew everybody. Looking back at my choices as a kid, the outdoors was my retreat. That's where I went to escape

6:23things. We didn't have the technology that people have now. We didn't have the phones and we still dealt with a lot of the same things. But it was different. It was my retreat. It was my escape. I can't tell you the times when I was younger than that. From daylight till dark, I was on the creek fishing in front of the house. I was in the woods. Squirrel hunting, turkey hunting, deer hunting. Whatever season was in, I was taking part of it. And I have a squirrel hunt in years. I do kill a couple of deer each year. I gotta get on that. I'm doing that. For you guys who have been following me next month, I'll be back in Wyoming. I drew another elk tag. This time it was only a cow tag. I'm okay with that. Getting to go out

7:32west and hunt in the Rockies is phenomenal. I was able to harvest a nice six by seven bowl last year with Rick. Looking at Rick's Facebook stuff, they had a really successful hunt this year. It looks like three of them. Rick, of course, has taken his 22nd bowl. The guys that were out there, they looked like two of them took pretty nice bowls. I'm okay. I'm about to meet. I'm about the opportunity to have more elk venison in my freezer this year. Next year we'll probably do something different. In fact, I may actually forego the elk hunt if I was even to draw. To go to Maine, I haven't been to Maine in several years. Me and babies have been talking back and forth. I think that's hopefully we can get Carl and a couple of us go to Maine and spend a week.

8:34Maybe two. We'll see. See how it works out. That may be on the agenda for next year. I know the early season in North Carolina is in, early season in West Virginia's in. Hopefully I can make it to one or two or both of those lovely states this year to hunt. I don't know. My hunting, I think I went over to a podcast here recently. Normally I get to travel in the spring and to be able to get my dogs out a couple of days here and a couple of days there and knock the rust off of them and have them lined out for our season. It just didn't work out that way this year. I don't know what exactly happened, but it just didn't work out. I didn't get the opportunity to do that. So hopefully the fall will be better. I'll make some time. I'll do whatever I need to do to get the dogs out. And then next spring, I've already got it lined up. June, I'm

9:37going to go back to Canada. I think Doug, I think Doug is going before I go. I hope he don't catch him all, but leave me a couple. But we're going to go to back up to Nick and Sarah's and in June. We're going to spend five days up there hunting and then we're going to take a couple of my buddies are going to come up after the we get done hunting and we're going to spend two or three days fishing with Luke and Nick and just Shawn, maybe you'll be around. It's going to be a good time. So I'm looking forward to it. So I've got things lined up just making it happen. I want to circle back to our training season because I know we touched on it last week. I didn't I went over like, you know, the day then stuff that I'd kept. But I want to go over some dogs, the dog work and then, you know, moving forward. Where am I moving forward? Where

10:40if you're if you're training dogs and you're hunting dogs, what's what's the next step in the process? Where are you at in the process? So the last two days, I took Old Sieg with me, the puppy, the seven, he turned seven months old. And I told you that he was not fond of leading. That was the last thing that I was actually working on him with. So I was a little bit hesitant of taking him because I didn't want to put him in an environment, time up and like him kind of spaz out. And that whole experience is just not it's not pleasurable for him. So I took him the last two days with me. I actually walked him into three different trees. And I did not put a lead on him. I had made up my mind. I'm like, okay, just kind of let him do his thing. And in perfect puppy fashion,

11:45he comes into the tree with me. It's kind of funny because he's a little bit maltheer than I prefer. Like he leaks a little bit more than I like. When he gets excited, man, that that mouth is you. So we were walking in to the first tree and we get in where we can hear the dollars really, really good. And it's just me and him. I don't even think nobody's with me. Maybe Clayter. Anyway, we're walking into the tree. We get in where we can really hear the dogs and we're getting closer. And then he just starts barking. He's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm like, dude, what are you doing? And he's looking at me and he's looking and he's looking at me. And I'm sitting there and I'm kind of giggling at myself. I'm like, well, he knows there's a party going on. But he ends not sure what the party's about. And he's not sure what he should do about it. Again, perfect puppy fashion. This is what puppies do. So we get in to the tree. I mean, I don't know what you guys do. But like the first thing I do is I get my hands on my older dogs or the ones that I think that if this thing comes out,

12:50we don't we don't want them hurt. So I'm tying up dogs and I finally get everybody tied up. And I mean, he's just running around checking all the dogs out. Like again, he's he don't know. This is his first. Like this is his first. He's running around the yard. He's free to do whatever he wants at the house. So this is his first experience. And I want it to be somewhat positive if not all positive, right? I don't want to set him back by, you know, causing issues or whatever. And I know where I'm at with my training with him. I know that the lead is an issue. So I just didn't do it. So we sit there. We take pictures. We pet the dogs. He's still running around doing his thing. And then we walk away from the tree and he kind of goes back to the tree and back to me and back to the tree and back to me. And then he comes on with me. That was the first tree. And on the last tree, I had to walk. It was a mile or more into him. And I had I had a dog. We had six dogs there

13:59between me, Garrett and Hotron. So it was about a mile, a mile in and I'm like, you know, this is a great time for him to get out in the woods, explore, kind of do his thing and just learn. This is a learning excursion for me for him, right? So we're walking, we're walking in a path and the path gets to an intersection and it splits in three different directions. Well, first I took the lower path and then I realized I'm like, I'm going to be way low of these dogs. I don't want to do that. I'm going to go back up and take the upper path and then I'm going to cut across to him. So he's out in front of me and I'm coming back up the lower path and when I get to the intersection, I turn right. Well, he goes back towards the truck. And I'm thinking, well, this is not good because I want him with me. If he gets back to the truck, it may be two hours before I get around there. Where's he going to be? Am I going to have to run him down and find him? So I start hauling for him. He comes back but then he takes the left-handed path.

15:06And he gets within, I don't know, I was 180 yards or so and I start hauling for him again and slowly, now this took some time. This was a 15, 20 minute ordeal. This was not a two seconds of let's go. He ends up cutting across from path to path. He once he hits my track, it's a game on. He comes right to me. So I'm doing that process. I'm thinking, I probably maybe I shouldn't have done this or maybe I should have left him at the truck. I don't want to have to walk back in the area that I'm at to try to find him. So let's hope he comes on and he ended up coming on. We we walked in. Same exact scenario. We get in where we can hear the dogs. It's pretty open timber and then we get into the hollow that they're treated in or I actually thought they were baited up because they had been walking and moving and walking and moving the whole time. And they had moved a little bit prior to me getting there. So I'm I'm being pretty cautious. We get out and it's you know we go from open timber into this ticket. Everybody the bear hunts know what I'm

16:09talking about. Like it's a ticket. It's thick. Laurel bushes are thick. You're crawling through it. You can't see 20 foot in front of you. So I go around the upper side. I made up the my mind. I'm like if this thing's on ground I want to push it back towards my truck. I don't want it going the opposite direction. I don't want to have to keep cutting them off or trying to catch up with them. So I made a loop in there and I come around well again we're in there close. He's barking. The dogs are barking. He's barking and I'm like dude just like hush. I don't know how you guys are but when I'm going to the tree I cut my radio down. I'm I slip in. I'm like a silent ninja. I just slip in there and make sure everything's good. I tie the dogs up whatever. So I get in there and Kate comes and meets me about 20 yards off the tree and then another dog come in there and I'm like I'm looking on the ground and I'm like Kate don't usually come back when it's like bait up tight. So I start looking around and I finally see a spot that I can see the the skyline

17:14and when I look up the bear sitting up there I was like okay so I grab dogs and I'm tied up and I mean he's running around and pestering the dogs like some of them don't care and some of them do care. So I'm like you know I don't I don't want one of the dogs to jump on him because he's aggravating them like we talked about this before they're focused they're they're business and he he's trying to figure out what he's just playing like a lot of puppy in him. But anyway that never happened we get the I get the dogs tied up finally get him away from the tree and you know he comes on he comes on with me because I mean he he's just like oh all my buddies are here let's go. So I took him last last looks at the last two days we got into a couple trees got him a little bit of exposure did not use a lead on him and I'm I've come home seasons over

18:19or you know for us for training and I'm making my little to-do list right I'm writing in my notes on my phone and I'm like okay let's work on this this and this. So for him my number one priority is get him lead broke. So I have a tie out that Kevin made me from dogs are treated to single and it's about 10 foot and I've got a cedar tree out here behind the the building. So I wrap it around the head and I've got it tied well the very first day I set the suit food bowl down I usually use my my sixth tie out when I do it when I have multiple dogs but since I've only got him well I got him and the other girl the female now but so I put the food bowl down I hook him up and I go to feed the little puppy that Richard give me which I still have not come up with a name yet. I can't figure it out I'm working on it so I go to feed her I put her in a pen

19:20to feed her I come back around and I mean he's like he's got that thing stretched out like a fishing line tired and it can be and he just steps he's sitting there and I'm like hey you've been on you've been on a lead a couple times like you got you got to move past this like we've got him we got to make some progress here. So I give him 30 minutes I go back out he had he hadn't eaten he didn't eat nothing. So I want to go back to my thought process and how I see things and this is just this is just me. So I know that if I tie him up in the woods and he completes that behavior he leans up against it because he can't go in for any freezes up that right right then it's not a pleasurable experience and we want the trip to the woods and the trip hunting to be exciting and fun and business like you remember my my police stuff kicks in there I want it to be all business

20:29so he does that behavior and I'm thinking okay I made the right decision the last couple days by not putting him on lead I did. So I pull the food once he lets tensioned off of that that tie out I let him go. An hour later I go back out and give him another opportunity. Well let me tell you how smart this can literally is he won't come nowhere near that tree. I'm dropping a little bit of food to keep it on the ground the little females over there and I mean she did like a vacuum cleaner she's like I mean she's she's all about it. He's sitting back just at her range like hmm dad you don't got me once you're not getting me again. It's like okay you got me on this one I'll change locations so I take the food bowl round of the edge of the pen his pen this is around around the side of the yard of the building and I set the food bowl down and I mean he comes up

21:29and I mean he's all about it and I hook him up to a lead I tie the lead to the pen and I hook him he eats a little bit and then he realizes oh dad got me again so he shuts down again right we talk about you know fight flight or freeze when you know in a dog's mind he was in that freeze stage so he did eat a little bit so like okay so I pull the food I let him go once the tension is off the lead that's very important once the tension is off the lead I let him go so the next day we roll around to the next day and I go back to the tree I drop some cable and old Ziki's like mm-hmm nope you not get me again I remember this from yesterday remember those and we can say traumatic of ants even though we know it's not traumatic but it was traumatic

22:29enough to him that he's like I'm not getting within a 10 foot pole that that tree because I know what happened right so I had to open Pandora's Box and kind of get creative so it took me a couple days right four couple days out and the last two days so yesterday and the day before I was able to set the food bowl down and he's still cautious he's very very cautious set the food bowl down hook him up on the lead let him eat and yesterday evening like he was actually moving around when I come out after he'd finished eating I come back out and I let I let the little girl out and I walk around there and he's actually moving back and forth on the lead like he's actually you know moving around normally he just freezes up and sets and don't do anything

23:29so I tell you this to go back to what I constantly believe in that it's a process patience you know we we have to have patience we have to understand and that our training methods can have adverse effects on our dogs and if your dogs not set up for success you can cause problems down the road and even if you do everything right you can cause problems down the road so making the decision to hold him off during training season to take him the last two days to give him a little bit of exposure to not tie him up in fact I'll even go one step further when I was catching him and we were out you know out hunting and I was letting him run

24:32loose and do his own thing he's free when I did put my hands on him I wasn't dragging him to the truck I wasn't forcing him although I actually was I picked him up I scooped him up I put him up on a tailgate and once he kind of relaxed a little bit you know how the dogs will get stiff when they're not they're not sure what's going on once he relaxed pet him a little bit and put him in the box so I didn't drag I didn't catch him drag him catch him drag him catch him drag him because when you do that you're pre-programmed in some of those problems we talk about then your dogs don't want to get caught right they're like no every time dad gets his hands on me like I'm playing I'm man I'm hoe and taters like I'm putting four feet in the ground and dad's pulling me up to this the truck and shoving me in a box and doing these things so I don't know I'm you try to be mindful of how when and what we do I'm not in a race I've got plenty of time although I want

25:41things moving in the right direction right we want to be making progress just like him it's took me four or five days to get some progress but now that I've made progress each day should be quicker quicker quicker and then I'm on to the next thing the next thing I'm going to do with him is get him loading by himself he'll he'll put his feet up on the tailgate I just haven't had time to feed him in the truck yet so that's after I get the leading accomplished I will go to loading him in the truck feeding him he don't mind the ride and in fact I've taken I mean he's went to the store with me the gas station he goes to the trash dump I've had him in the truck I've had him enough in there when I delivered dog food he's he's been with me so he's been in the truck enough to be comfortable in fact he'll like he his little nose will come out of the box and like he's using using his nose he's not uncomfortable in the truck so you know through the summer I'd

26:46spend enough time with him to get get that process in the right direction so the little female I I need to send in for her I have not last couple weeks has been like tough like I've been on the range the week for last I was on the range every evening so I wasn't home till 10 o'clock at night so I didn't get to fall with him in the evening then last week we had like volleyball and homecoming court all these extra curriculars that took up time and then this week things kind of got back to normal I've got to spend a couple I don't know a couple minutes with them in the evenings to get things headed in the right direction and I was thinking about it this morning before I actually come on the podcast like how do we carve out time like it's important to spend

27:51time with our dogs how do you carve out time when life is so busy like it is busy like especially if you guys are raising kids and you know traveling here and there and doing all these things it's like I need 10 minutes I need 10 minutes and then like yesterday it's pouring down rain like you go out to feed you stone your rain jacket you're feeding you cleaning pins and you're doing it in the as the least amount of time is possible because you don't want to be out in it so how do you carve out time you just got to make yourself like I said five minutes a day if you're doing five minutes a day you're doing more than 90 percent of the people if you spend five minutes a day with your dogs and in five minutes like I said I can use that food time that feeding time to work on complete start the small tasks that the training elements that I want the recall the the leading the loading

28:57the stuff that makes hunting with your hands more pleasurable so I tell you all that to go back to to season and I've got two dogs that are extremely hard to handle at the tree and what I mean is and I have several trees that I've walked away from this year it's like a double-edged sword it's like they are committed committed and that's what you want that's what we all want we want a dog that is committed that I'm not stopping it all cost but at the same time when it's done it's done right like when that whistle blows everything ceases the style it's got to stop and I don't know if it's been me that I've done a bad job with with the training

30:00these are definitely two of my better dogs like I'm proud of that I'm proud that the these dogs are solid but I also catch myself getting very frustrated when I'm trying to lead six dogs off a tree and two of them are literally jerking my shoulder out of socket because they don't want to leave the tree and lord forbid that if you pull them away 10 20 foot and old yogi decides to come down the tree you better be holding on to something because 260 pound dogs have a lot of strength a lot of strength we all know that so what I did is I made sure that I didn't put those two on the same lead so I double cut my yeah I double-couple my dogs when I'm leaving so that away soon as I get away from the tree I just cut them loose and they follow me out well these are

31:01the two that I've got to kind of stay on until we get quite a bit away from the tree so between now and December I'm going to work on capping their drive a little bit I want a little bit more cooperation once the deal is done right I don't want them pulling me off the side of the mountain I don't want them pulling me over a ledge I don't want them pulling me down and another reason six is usually my limit like six dogs are hard to handle and especially as as we get older four dogs is a handful so I need a little bit more cooperation there I need to do a little bit better job on my end of preparing them and making them understand what I'm asking of them but I

32:08also love their commitment their drive to stay and I'll tell you like one of them her her I had two dogs on on a bear on the ground and these these two were the younger dogs and like they walked and bathed and walked and bathed and walked and bathed and treated it come out they walked and bathed they walked and bathed and treated I'll that's my expectations you stay till I get there right you stay till I get there and when I see that commitment at the end of the game I know they have it like you there's no question like you you you know you know they got it but at the same time the handle the handleability the handleability of it needs to be a little bit more intact if I can call my dog off a deployment if I can send my dog down range to apprehend you

33:14and tell him to either to terminate or to return to me then those dogs should be able to do the same thing in my mind so that's going to be some stuff that I'm working on the next month or two and hopefully I get to do a little traveling a little hunting and we can bring you up to date with that and when I go to Wyoming we'll post pictures and hopefully it's just a phenomenal hunt whether we harvest anything or not just being out west hits different like it hits different it's I mean it calls me like how I got tied up on the east coast my whole life I'm unsure of it because when I go out west like it's just different and I think a lot of people feel that way like it's just you feel like you belong there you feel like I should have been raised you know in the wild west like

34:16this is where I should have grown up this is I'm I'm 50 years too late for what I want so seasons over couple training things we gotta start working on I'll keep you updated we've got to figure out a name for little girl I can hear outside now I gotta go out and let her out she's fussing so we'll catch you on the next one that's going to be a wrap for this week's episode of Creek Side Chronicles we appreciate you spending your time with us whether you in the truck in the woods or sitting by the creek just listening along thank you for walking this trail with us and we got to say thank you to W. Supply for hosting the podcast and supporting everything we do be sure to check them out and go to W. Supply.com for all your hounding honey needs until next time keep your dogs fed right whose leads tight

35:21boots muddy and we'll see you at the tree tailgate drops before the lie coolers packed and the rigs sitting right tracking colors charged beeping green boots in the bed and the rifles clean dog box rattling engines huh we're chasing bear till the day is done oh ring barking like he knows what's near nose to the wind tail full of cheer from the Virginia mountains to the Carolina clay we're burning fuel in miles each day every turns another 10 through mountain mist and paper trips we see the suns in red and Tennessee rise through the fog in old WV North Carolina's

36:22high and zekola with the cry of a hard run hell new your forest maize deep snow burn my valleys where the black bears go truck keep throw wheels don't care we're chasing daylight the chase and bear rest stops few the roads are long but the fire in our heart still burns strong Wisconsin mornings cutting crisp and clear Canada's wildwoods drawing near still got states we ain't run the bad hand off fever won't let us quit we see the suns in red and Tennessee rise through the fog in old WV North Carolina's high and zekola with the cry of a hard run hell new your

37:30frost maize deep snow burn my valleys where the black bears go truck keep throw wheels don't care we're chasing daylight chasing bear gas station coffee alpha excel on the dash another back row another bear train friends made fast the stories told slow understarts where only hunters go we see the sunrise gold in Canadian air and it sits on a trail down in Appalachia back in steel and leather great in care we're built for the role in chasing bear so hold the dogs and slam the gate there's a trail ahead we won't be late from dawn to dusk we're always there

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