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breaking off opossum

My hunting buddy is going to start breaking a walker female off posum this week.

She is a 2 year old walker. Great tree dog. Semi- silent on track.

Was looking for opinion about shocking her at or around tree.

This female will hunt alone and have the meat 90% plus of the time.

All advice and opinions appreciated. I plan on printing the responses and letting my hunting partner decice when and how to electricute her.

Thanks Mark

I always try to break them away from the tree first....get a dead possum and drag a track at the house........put a shock collar on her and lead her toward it, as soon as she winds or smeels it hit her with the collar!! Keep trying this even put the possum out and as soon as she heads for it or acts like she smells is hit her with the collar!! Works on some, doesnt on others!! Good place to start though!!

I would recommend that you not pet the dog up. Don't reward her in any way. Never shoot it out. Just pull her off the tree and verbally correct her. Then either put her back in the box and take her home, or to another drop so she don't go back to the same tree. She will learn that she's not going to get a reward for anything but a coon. Amy

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I wouldn't recommend shocking her treeing a opossum. I would shoot the possum, correct her throughly by swinging the possum like a windmill and rubbing it all over her face. Wont be long she wont want anything to do with it. Start of breaking slow, make sure she knows it's bad before you start windmilling. Some people flip a switch on a dog and the dog dosen't even know he's doing wrong.Iv'e treed a many possum with young dogs. I like my pups to start off on off game. A hog will teach a pup how to run a track.

Best I know and good luck
Scott Jenkins

Possums

Break the dog from possums away from the tree ---on the ground. The idea(for me) is not to break the dog of "treeing " possums ,but rather to break the dog off of possums period. as a desireable game.

heres what I would do . Let the dog wear a shock collar . If she trees a possum then scold her lightly and lead her away from the tree. Go a fair distance and tie her and then go back and shake the possum out on the ground. Hit it in the head if you need to to keep it on the ground and then go get your dog and walk her back to where the possum is at , When she runs up to the possum then put the tritronics curse on her and move on.

My old female treed a few possums when she was young . I caught her bayed on one inside a hollow log one night when she was about 3 years old. The log was laying on the ground and she was all the way up inside it . I lite her up and she was broke from that night on .I think being up inside that log had an extra effect when the juice hit her. I think it scared her badly. Won a few casts with her on account of she wouldn't back a dog on a possum. She's 10 now and has been broke ever since . She treed a persimmon tree this year with a possum in it but there were two kitten coons sitting in it also.

Good Luck

Thanks for the quick responses. I see where you are coming from on all these ideas.
I have never "hands on" usd a corrective collar and don't want to be the one that does the wrong thing.

I like the idea of corrrecting in a familiar environment, such as near her pen, with a dead possum.
Rewards and punishments still work,I think.

Last nite she treed a boar coon and we shot it out to her. She was still bloody with coon blood and treed two more possums in twety minutes or so. She just loves them.

Thanks again, MLB