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Help with tree climbing dog.

I need some help. My year old walker is a good DOG untill he gets to the tree then he thinks he is a dang MONKEY! He tries his best to climb up the tree and get the coon. A couple of times I have gotten to the tree to find him up in it. Not real far yet, but I am worried. One of these nights he is gonna have a bad fall and suffer for it. I know a lot of you guys have lost good dogs to tree climbing. Also, if he can't climb it, he will try till he is wore out. The worst part it while he is doing all this climbing and jumping he shuts up .

any help?

thanks

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" 10 yrs. old tommorrow and he is still alive and ME TOO !!!!!

shoot him now b4 you get more atached no matter how far he falls out from it wont stop him

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Jesse Nappin TREEDOGG MAFIA

I suggest using a shock collar. Falling out does stop many from ever climbing again but it,s very dangerous,

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I just lost GrCh NtCh Buck's Black Water Razor (4 wins toward grand) last week to falling out of a tree. He severed his spine and we had to get him put down. I don't know how you could stop a dog from doing it, but if you can figure out a way, let me know.

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Cut his nails short.

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get him on a leash when hes treeing, and everytime he tries to go up the tree pull him down pet him up while hes treeing like he should be, then loosen the lead again, if he does it again wait till he is in the air then pull him down hard...

thats my only idea

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Dont know if it works or not but I've been told to put a pinch collar on him and tie him short enough at the bottom of the tree where everytime he jumps or tries to climb it pinces him but he can still stand on the tree without getting pinched. I always thought this sounded logical.

Man, I was hoping that ya'll would tell me to go to the local vet and get a pill and it would fix it. LOL!!!

Yea, I have been jerking his @ss down off the tree when I get there, but I am worried about while I ain't there.

I had one

that was a bad tree climber. He even climbed while trailing. I made it worse the first time I saw it happening by laughing my head off. We were in an abandannoned apple orchard and he went up one tree, out the end of a limb, dropped off just like a coon, then on to the next one through half the orchard before I leashed him up. He did not shut up long while he was climbing, but he did use his mouth to hoist himself up to the next branch. Within a year, he was shimmying up trees with no branches. Not much discouraged him. I saw him picking his route down from a good 35 feet up and he never hurt himself, although he was put down before the age of 3 for other reasons--he chewed up my husband. One thing that helped with the shimmying up bare trunks--keep his dewclaws short, or remove them. Those are what he used to climb branchless trunks.
Sounds to me like you need to teach that hound that the coon is yours, not his. He needs to learn to depend on you to get to the tree and shoot it out. This is just my thinking, not from experience, but it might help if he knows you are coming in. Shout "i'm on my way" or something like that every minute or so on the way in. I am slow in the woods, and when training a hound, shout every few minutes to let him know I am making progress coming in. I find that this is a considerable help in getting a hound to stay put. It might stop him from being impatient about you getting there. If he figures out that he will get the coon (or at least a lot of praise)if you get there before he climbs, but not if he's already up the tree.

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Originally posted by HuntWalkers
Man, I was hoping that ya'll would tell me to go to the local vet and get a pill and it would fix it. LOL!!!

Yea, I have been jerking his @ss down off the tree when I get there, but I am worried about while I ain't there.

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