Registered: May 2005
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Anybody know how to break a dog from climbing trees? About every other tree I get to my dog will be way up in the tree. Some of these trees are leaning but some aren't . He's going to break his neck. He's about seventy pounds but he is a tree climbing fool

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I had one die that way. Tough to take when they're a good one. Nothing I tried stopped her. She fell several times before she broke her neck. I vowed the next time I had one like that I'd set the dog up on a drag/ caged coon to see if the dog would climb and as soon as they did I'd shock them all the way to the ground. Dead, ruined or possibly fixed what have you got to lose?

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I have used E collar, it works...

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I've tried the e -collar after I've got to the tree but so far it hasn't worked. I try to call him and get him as low in the tree as I can and shock him but it hasn't helped. Last night when I got to the tree he was about fifteen feet up. I called him and got him down to about eight feet and shocked him. He wouldn't come out . My buddy finally found a long stick and poked him in the butt and he jumped out

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Turn it up.

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Use that shocker in a controlled situation, set him up with caged coon hung in tree that you can climb. When he starts climbing tree make him pay, everyone that I have seen that was bad to climb got killed or seriously injured. You have got to stop it whatever it takes. Dave

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the only thing i have found that works is to put dog boots on their feet .that cover over the toe nails. i got some from lion country . i had a dog that would climb every tree in the woods . the boots took her a while to get use to on her feet and was comical till she got use to them .

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Hunt him with about 25 ft of weed eater string hooked to his collar you get there reach up grab it and yank him out hard he will not get tangled up much and he will get your point.




Worked for me.


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Tie a brick to his collar.

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Originally posted by Texcooner
I've tried the e -collar after I've got to the tree but so far it hasn't worked. I try to call him and get him as low in the tree as I can and shock him but it hasn't helped. Last night when I got to the tree he was about fifteen feet up. I called him and got him down to about eight feet and shocked him. He wouldn't come out . My buddy finally found a long stick and poked him in the butt and he jumped out

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There is also (it's top secret stuff here ) a thing we call a lipper stick !! A snap a 3" piece of chain and a 2 ' long peice of 2" x 2" board hook it to their collar it slowed them down made them hunt and they could not climb with that between their front legs.



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They are able to climb because their toe nails dig into the tree bark, cut all four back into the quick where it makes them bleed, see how that helps, its not fun cutting them back that far and they yelp in pain but thats better than what a friend had to do just the other nite, Gr. nite walker female fell out and broke her back, his buddie had to put her down right there.

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Registered: May 2005
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Thanks for the suggestions . I'm gonna try what Dave and Eric suggested and I'm gonna cut those toenails as short as I can. Not sure about Tar's lipper stick . That sounds like the Cool Hand Luke method. Might work because me and that dog do have a failure to communicate . Thanks again

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Have the vet remove the two center toe nails on the back feet. It will help on most trees. Cage coon & shock treatment on a tree the dog can get in.

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I would do what Novecane 65 suggested.

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I have only had 2 that climbed. I turned the collar up on high and zapped them. They both jumped straight up and fell out and hit the ground with a thud. Neither one ever climbed a tree again.

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I'm going hunting tomorrow night and I'm going to try what Richard suggested . If that doesn't work I'll catch a coon in a trap and do what Dave and novicane suggested

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I had one that could shinny up a tree like a monkey, and did. I just let him do it. He never hurt himself--always looked around and jumped off uphill or into a pond or whatever would work to break his fall--sometimes me. In an apple orchard, he would even trail up tree, out to the end of a limb, jump to the ground,up the next tree. Scared a guy in a tree stand once--climbed up the ladder--there was coon scat in it! He used his mouth to grab onto branches above him, but he could go up a tulip tree with a straight trunk. I only had him for 2 years. He had other faults... Be careful about letting him teach other dogs. They learn quick!

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