msinc
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The first question I have is: if the dog blasts down an old woods road and gets a good distance away does it come back if you call it??? If not this could be a simple matter of teaching the command "Here". If the dog understands what "Here" means and it wont come to you when it clears out down a road then this is a tough one...if you ever owned one of these dogs that does this and was never corrected it is a real pain. Or at least it used to be before the Garmin trackers came along. Years before we had no idea that the dog was blasting away until it was long gone, but not now.
I once bought a 5 Y.O. dog that did this and she came to be known as "the disappearing dog" because that is exactly what she did. Not every night and she was a good enough dog that I really thought I had something until I realized what was going on. The worse thing about it was that she preferred to do this when she had a young puppy for company. Twice the young dog with her was lost for good.
About the only thing to do about it back then was get rid of the dog, so I did. If I had another one that did this I would still just get rid of it, but you might want to try letting the dog lose and stopping it with a E-collar every time it hits the road. You will have to keep the pressure on until the dog comes back to you. Just like training a dog the command "Here", you have to be the relief. The dog has to know that the only way this is going to go good for him is coming back to you.
If I had to try and break a dog from disappearing down woods roads I would also not work on anything but this problem until I got it stopped. Run the dog only during the day and forget about coons or anything else until this problem is cured. How long to work on it is up to you, but don't expect it to be cured in just a few sessions. Best of luck and good hunting.
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