RED REBELS
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quote: Originally posted by giverson
Start feeding her in the box. If she wants to eat she will jump in.
quote: Originally posted by bigdog061
Let the dog box be her house.....bedding on 1 side, put feed and water in the other. after a week or so, put box in truck, put feed in box, she will get hungry enough!!!!
Paul
quote: Originally posted by John D
Do not make loading a painful experience or you will never get her to load.
Do not pick her up and put her in, unless you want to do that the rest of her life.
My dogs have to load and I generally have them loading as pups. They have to be taught. The good news is once they learn that getting in the truck means they are going hunting, they are glad to jump in.
Here's how I do it. I take the dog box out of my pick up and then park the truck in a low place in such a way that the tailgate might only be a foot off the ground. After I have the pup leading well, I just lead it up into the bed of the truck, giving some kind of verbal command as I do it. Once the dog has stepped up in the truck bed, I praise it. I lead it out of the truck bed and repeat. Soon the dog is wanting to get in the truck to receive that praise. Loading has become a pleasant experience for them.
At that point, I start parking the truck so the tailgate is higher and keep repeating until the tailgate is normal height. At some point I will stop stepping in the bed myself. Then, I'll put the dog box in and start with the tailgate low.
Once the dog knows how to do a particular step, but refuses, they need some discipline. Most dogs, at some point will come up to the tailgate and want to turn away, or they will jump on the tailgate but refuse to go in the dog box. They are testing YOU. This is when they need to know its not their decision, its yours.
Loading is no different than any other training a coonhound needs. Put them in a position to be successful and praise them when they are. If you get to a step they can't do, then back up to the step where they were successful and repeat. Discipline them when they know and are able to do the right thing but are just being stubborn.
I would listen to these three, if she gets hungry, she'll jump and doing it slow and steady works too.
now Billy Beckham's advice could work as well, but I had a dog that WOULD NOT go in a dog box, or starting gate, took two full grown men to get him in there, first the front feet would latch on to whatever, then the back feet would. once you got the big moose in there, he would turn himself around, which isnt a problem in the dog box but it is in a starting box, and then if the people that shoved him in the box were around, he wouldnt come out. so it could work, but it could be a harmful experience to your dog's development as well
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