I do not run my dogs with collars. I use the tried and true method of running them down and administering a good old fashioned a$$ whopping. The last 3 dogs I have owned that has been a very infrequent event. My first dog.....almost every day we hunted until she was about 6 years old. That was one STUBBORN dog but we killed boat loads of birds together. Eventually we learned to tolerate each others bad habits. It took me sometime but I came around to the point of view that it was more important to read the dog and react accordingly than be in control all the time. We killed more birds after I came around to her way of thinking.

I shoot every Porcupine I can safely. I killed a Coon she trapped in the tall CRP one day too. That was interesting. You always knew if she barked she was on something other than a bird. The dog I held by the scruff of her neck while unloading a bunch of 5's into that coon.

Another time I had her and the Malamute out looking for Blue Grouse and they both started chasing a grey streak through the tall grass. Good thing I did not have a safe shot. I had thought it was a Coyote but instead they chasing a Canadian Lynx up a tree. Those things are cool!

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