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Dean A

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Is there any way to stop a dog from rolling in poop. I know it's something they do naturally. He doesn't do it often, maybe three times over the last year. When he finds the right pile of deer poop he plows right in.
I was thinking about getting some poop and using the command to leave it and reinforcing it with a shock from his e collar. I would like to know if anyone has an idea or has found success using another training method.

Dean
 
I teach leave it on a six foot leash. Place treats on the floor, walk up to the treat, as you approach say leave it tug on the lead give dog a better treat (hot dog) from your hand. Repeat over and over, always having that better treat for leaving it.
I will use a pinch collar for this exercise, also change the floor items with a toy or tennis ball. If you want to put distance use a long line or flexlie. You can throw the treat and bring dog back to you for the treat. Be patient, make it right, keep sessions short, always end with a positive.
Leave it is another word in a dogs vocabulary like sit, stay, down, come.
I can and have called my dog off a rabbit! Good luck, Charlie
 
Good luck
I have a similar problem with my dog when I let her run on some marsh islands for exercise. She will be running around like a mad dog then stop dead in her tracks and start rolling around hard trying to cover herself in what ever it is she finds. Usually some dead shellfish or turtle. A few weeks ago she rolled around in some big mess a bunch of seals left behind. I had her do a bunch of water retrieves trying to get the funk off but man did she stink on the way home.
So if you find something that works let me know.
 
Consider yourself lucky.

Here is a post I made back in November of 2009:




Here is an experience I had with my lab a few weeks ago:

Tonight Echo and I were scouting a farm that I have permission to hunt and we had completed about half of the loop I wanted to walk when I see her just inside the woods doing the dog roll thing in the tall grass. I yell at her to stop and "here", she obeys and starts to trot toward me but as she gets closer I see something that I don't want to see.....toilet paper hanging from her collar.

"SIT" I scream.....and she freezes and sits.

I walk slowly toward her and I see from her head to her tail on her left side she is covered in human feces.

She had found a fresh pile from a bowhunter.

I'll save you the gruesome details of the next hour but suffice it to say I've had better evenings.
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Charlie's leave it scenario and training is how I have done it with the last 5 dogs. It works well. GOOD LUCK !!!
 
Consider yourself lucky.

Here is a post I made back in November of 2009:




Here is an experience I had with my lab a few weeks ago:

Tonight Echo and I were scouting a farm that I have permission to hunt and we had completed about half of the loop I wanted to walk when I see her just inside the woods doing the dog roll thing in the tall grass. I yell at her to stop and "here", she obeys and starts to trot toward me but as she gets closer I see something that I don't want to see.....toilet paper hanging from her collar.

"SIT" I scream.....and she freezes and sits.

I walk slowly toward her and I see from her head to her tail on her left side she is covered in human feces.

She had found a fresh pile from a bowhunter.

I'll save you the gruesome details of the next hour but suffice it to say I've had better evenings.
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HAHAHA I only laugh because I have seen the same thing. Luckily it wasn't my dog. We had just finished a duck hunt and were loading up, no need to say he didn't get right into the truck after that.

Tim
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