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Re: Snake proofing dogs [Re: tigger] #9036009 04/19/24 03:22 PM
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Last year early teal season, Tara's snake training did not work very well. Tara was on my right, she had no idea the there was snake on my left. I looked to my left and it was 2 foot from my face wiggling its tongue at me, skart the pee pee out of me...

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I know it's nonpoisonous, but it still f'n bites, and I don't like snakes trying to french kiss me..

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Was out with Junior one day when he jumped sideways, I looked down and here was this guy. Normally he'd have attacked it, he had a very high prey drive. On the second dog now. I've always taken them to the snake clinic and vaccinated them.

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This was from a long time ago. My girl Molly (RIP 2015) was injured, so I was hunting without her. Good thing too, because this little fella was right in our path and this path I tipically let Molly run ahead of me. I would hope with her training she would have stayed clear of it, but you never know. When I walked up on it, it was right in the middle of the path, up in the air, and its mouth was wide open, it was all white mouth and it was like shaking it was so ready to bite, it was wicked looking. By the time I got my camera out it shut its mouth.

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Re: Snake proofing dogs [Re: Guy] #9037537 04/23/24 02:07 AM
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It’s important to do the snake breaking as a pup, as their first experience with a snake. Once a dog gets after a snake and kills it, now it is a full blown habit and very hard to break them of that habit.

And you need to keep up the training. Issue with my dog is she knows when I take her to snake training, I can’t get here anywhere near the snake to give her a correction. Even if I take her to a different location, she sees everyone and their dogs, she immediately knows what is going on. I need to do a private session with Wayne, have him set up in a field by my house I normally take her, she needs to wear her collar (I different collar she will know something is up), and Wayne will need hide in bushes to zap her because she knows what he looks like.


Do you own a vizsla?

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It’s important to do the snake breaking as a pup, as their first experience with a snake. Once a dog gets after a snake and kills it, now it is a full blown habit and very hard to break them of that habit.

And you need to keep up the training. Issue with my dog is she knows when I take her to snake training, I can’t get here anywhere near the snake to give her a correction. Even if I take her to a different location, she sees everyone and their dogs, she immediately knows what is going on. I need to do a private session with Wayne, have him set up in a field by my house I normally take her, she needs to wear her collar (I different collar she will know something is up), and Wayne will need hide in bushes to zap her because she knows what he looks like.


Do you own a vizsla?

Rhetorical question?

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It’s important to do the snake breaking as a pup, as their first experience with a snake. Once a dog gets after a snake and kills it, now it is a full blown habit and very hard to break them of that habit.

And you need to keep up the training. Issue with my dog is she knows when I take her to snake training, I can’t get here anywhere near the snake to give her a correction. Even if I take her to a different location, she sees everyone and their dogs, she immediately knows what is going on. I need to do a private session with Wayne, have him set up in a field by my house I normally take her, she needs to wear her collar (I different collar she will know something is up), and Wayne will need hide in bushes to zap her because she knows what he looks like.


Do you own a vizsla?

Rhetorical question?

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Originally Posted by Guy
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It’s important to do the snake breaking as a pup, as their first experience with a snake. Once a dog gets after a snake and kills it, now it is a full blown habit and very hard to break them of that habit.

And you need to keep up the training. Issue with my dog is she knows when I take her to snake training, I can’t get here anywhere near the snake to give her a correction. Even if I take her to a different location, she sees everyone and their dogs, she immediately knows what is going on. I need to do a private session with Wayne, have him set up in a field by my house I normally take her, she needs to wear her collar (I different collar she will know something is up), and Wayne will need hide in bushes to zap her because she knows what he looks like.


Do you own a vizsla?

Rhetorical question?

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Only asked because one of my Vizslas quickly figured out if it was a avoidance clinic, you could not get her near a snake. Off lead, away from there she would still try to track them.



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Re: Snake proofing dogs [Re: tigger] #9054703 05/30/24 06:51 PM
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the gsp club of san antonio hosts events twice a year for snake avoidance training!

Re: Snake proofing dogs [Re: kindall] #9055055 05/31/24 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by kindall

Only asked because one of my Vizslas quickly figured out if it was a avoidance clinic, you could not get her near a snake. Off lead, away from there she would still try to track them.

Our dogs are similar on your first sentence, but not the last sentence. I have not seen where she has any interest in snakes. She is a funny girl, she is crazy about ducks and dove, any other animals she has no interest. She has a very interesting unique personality, she gets corrected on something, and she is like "ok, I get it". The pic where I shot that snake, she completely ignored it. I did see if she would go after it, she would not even look at it.

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I snake trained several of my labs myself and had great success. Except for a yellow named Drake. He loved to hunt, loved everyone but was dumb as a box of rocks about certain things, snakes being one of them.

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