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Only thing I can figure out is too much inbreeding. My pup has had lots of specialized attention and I'm home with him every day. First 9 weeks he was sleeping in the house next to my bed but was wanting to go outside 2-6 times per night. He also eats dog chit and barks in the yard at every thing from lizards to ravens, rabbits, deer and won't shut up unless I go out there and confront him. By the way, I have never laid a hand on this dog although maybe I should have. Definitely my last Kemmer.

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I recall several years ago I read a post where a guy was going to bred his kemmer before she had ever been hunted. I questioned the wisdom of not proving the dogs hunting before breeding and got a bunch of crap about how those dogs were so good that they didn't need proving. My dog is a good hunter and she has a lot of go but she is missing social skills and a handle. I agree with you, I too think folks were breeding for hunt and not watching the rest of the package.

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He did good today...I leashed him and lead him back to truck.

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You really need to have your dog tone broke before you ever take it out hunting. That way it knows to come when you tone it. Right now as you mentioned it is confused by the toning and shocking.

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No, he knows what the tone means and will return to me when I tone him unless as I said, we are almost back to the truck and he bolts off into the distance because he doesn't want to go home. Every time we go out hunting I tone him back to me at least once to refresh it in his mind, but the further distance from me he is, the less responsive he is to the tone.

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He's not tone broke then, just a little bent. You need more yard work and your satisfaction level with the dog will go way up.

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I really don't think short range toning practise in the yard is going to change anything. He always returns when toned now EXCEPT when we approach my truck, then he bolts to the next county and ignores tones AND level 5 shocks. Every other day we hunt and I tone him in to reinforce the behavior and he always comes to me...EXCEPT as previously stated.

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I had to go way higher than 5 several times to get mine turned around. Even now, at 9 years of age, I'll have to use a 5 sometimes. Usually she'll give up and come on with a 2. She knows very well what I want but wants to go her own way. The hardest part for me was worrying if I was somehow confusing her, or maybe the collar wasn't working or the transmitter wasn't working. But when I got the Garmin and a new shocker I saw what she was doing and it gave me the confidence to lay into her. That is the only thing that saved her as a hunting dog.

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I am not going to argue with you but your dog is not tone broke. I have been working with them ever since tone has been an option on training collars. I have been able to tone mine off trees if they were in places I couldn't get to them.

I recently started back deer hunting with dogs after near a 20 year lull. I started back with mature dogs that were not familiar with tone at all. They are not fully broke yet but to the season I will have them where they will break off a track running a deer to the tone. If you can get a dog to do that getting one to come no matter the distance isn't an issue.

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Very different dogs obviously....You probably haven't encountered the type of bull headed dog we're talking about. Hopefully there aren't many around.

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I have been hunting OMCs, Kemmer and Stephens curs as well as hounds about 45 years. I can't say I have encountered it all but I have run across just about everything you could think of. I still say it is a matter of patience, time and most of all knowledge.

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Very different dogs obviously....You probably haven't encountered the type of bull headed dog we're talking about. Hopefully there aren't many around.

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You've never seen bullheaded until you get a pack of deer dogs together😁.
It isnt the dog that's bullheaded. Why would you get on a forum looking for advice and then argue with people trying to help you out?
Your dog isn't some new strain we've never seen before. You have a simple problem. Your dog does not view you as the pack leader. Instead of arguing with people trying to offer advice why not ask the veterans how they go about tone breaking their dogs?
If you dont like the dog and believe its the particular breed or think its genetic( it isn't), just get rid of the dog and get yourself a cat.
For the record I'm not qualified to give advice on tone training I dont have a shocker or tone collar. I still just use a switch, it just takes a lot longer.

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Reading this i realized mine aren't tone broke either
And i really don't care

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You've never seen bullheaded until you get a pack of deer dogs together😁.
It isnt the dog that's bullheaded. Why would you get on a forum looking for advice and then argue with people trying to help you out?
Your dog isn't some new strain we've never seen before. You have a simple problem. Your dog does not view you as the pack leader. Instead of arguing with people trying to offer advice why not ask the veterans how they go about tone breaking their dogs?
If you dont like the dog and believe its the particular breed or think its genetic( it isn't), just get rid of the dog and get yourself a cat.
For the record I'm not qualified to give advice on tone training I dont have a shocker or tone collar. I still just use a switch, it just takes a lot longer.

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I had to go way higher than 5 several times to get mine turned around. Even now, at 9 years of age, I'll have to use a 5 sometimes. Usually she'll give up and come on with a 2. She knows very well what I want but wants to go her own way. The hardest part for me was worrying if I was somehow confusing her, or maybe the collar wasn't working or the transmitter wasn't working. But when I got the Garmin and a new shocker I saw what she was doing and it gave me the confidence to lay into her. That is the only thing that saved her as a hunting dog.

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You bring up a good point. Sometimes a dog understands the tone, vibrate, shock to be a sign to go to the truck or someother place they see as being safe instead of coming back to you. I was working on getting my kemmer back one time and she jumped into the bed of the truck instead of coming to me. Another time I buzzed a dog while I was in a field near my house. Instead of coming to me, she went home and was waiting for me. so keep that in mind.

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Same thing I thought. Maybe he panics when shocked and doesn't know what to do and heads for a safe place, although I alwys tone several times before I shock him and give him a chance to respond. In today's fiasco he simply ignored the repeated tones and only then did I shock. The ideal situation would be in a big open area where I could have visual contact, let him get out 7-8 hundred yards, tone and observe. Wheres my Advil...

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My bad seems like i gave you some bad advice. You seem to have him headed in the right direction now.

I wish the best of luck to your dog. Maybe he'll slip his collar and run off. I'll be pulling for him!

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My bad seems like i gave you some bad advice. You seem to have him headed in the right direction now.

I wish the best of luck to your dog. Maybe he'll slip his collar and run off. I'll be pulling for him!

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My bad seems like i gave you some bad advice. You seem to have him headed in the right direction now.

I wish the best of luck to your dog. Maybe he'll slip his collar and run off. I'll be pulling for him!

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Hey Russ...Sounds like your dogs need some yard work also..lol

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Oh yeah ... they need work
I usually 95% of the time hunt national Forest

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me too. Gila

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What in the world do you hunt for ?

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