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Armadillos

Need some ideas on breaking an extremely hard-headed young dog off them. Shock collar is not getting it done!

Best luck I ever had in stone cold breaking one was to catch an armadillo. I took everything out of the kennel so the dog couldn’t simply hide from it, and put a shock collar on the dog, then put the armadillo and dog in the empty pen together. I parked a ways from the pen so the dog couldn’t really see me, and gave him a light tap with the collar every time the armadillo even moved. Nothing brutal, not even enough to make him yelp, just an unpleasant sensation every time that critter moved for a couple hours. I sat there and listened to a baseball game and made sure that dog associated that armadillo with a negative stimulus. No screaming, no yelling, no whipping. The next time I hunted him I set him up on one in a field but he swung wide around it and he never had another problem.

Cory that is a very smart and correct answer. If that didn't work I don't know what would and the dog was not abused. But I can say I have fried some on an armadillo. Been doing this for 60 years and still learning.

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Tom Wood

Thank you sir. I hope it works as well for the original poster as it did for me.
My dad always said a man shouldn’t be allowed to own a mule until he was at least 40 and life had taught him how to be patient. I’ve messed with hounds nearly thirty years now and still have a bunch to learn, but when I stopped getting mad at dogs and put a little effort into figuring out how their mind works I started getting better results.

Thanks for the reply but I'm not real sure about how to catch an armadillo, lol, very seldom see one