How can i get my dog 2 stop trying 2 chase birds when i am walking her???

Question

She is a bird dog and everytime we walk i always end up pulling on her leach because she is chasing a bird...is there any possible way i can get her 2 stop???

Answer 1

Being a bird dog is no excuse for bad behavior. Teach her how to heel with obedience training.

Answer 2

Play with her before you take her on a walk, to get the animal instinct out. Take her out on a choke chain, when she tries to run scold her with a firm NO and a tap on the nose or a spray bottle. If after a while she learns not to chase birds give her a toy or a treat for a reward.

Answer 3

Look at your local pet store for something called a HALTI HEAD COLLAR. They cost about $20 or so, but they work wonders on dogs that pull or try to chase things and just about rip your shoulder out of socket. They control your dog kind of like a horse's halter. They put pressure on the dogs nose(which does NOT hurt them) and if they try pull away it will lead their head where you want it to go. We actually have a St. Bernard and black lab mix that used to pull, but since I started using the HALTI my 3 year old daughter is able to walk him. It's worth the money.

Answer 4

Let's us a POSITIVE correction instead of a NEGATIVE corrections.

What you need to do is make her understand that YOU and the ALPHA. When you go out for a walk YOU go first when you go inside YOU go first. YOU YOU YOU!

Get her really excited get that energy out- bird dogs have LOTS of energy. Play play play. Watch out for bad behavior.

Intisapte when she is going to go. When she starts to go give her a little quick snap with the collar, tell her "leave it" and turn around like a circle and then start going again.

You need to teach her heel too.

When she is walking good and nicely give he LOTS of PRAISE!

Take a tube of Peanut butter with you. Distract her when you are walking so she focuses on YOU, and NOTHING else!

Again when she is walking good- PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE her!

Hope this helps and remember this might take a few days!

Also, get her into Obedience training! It helps alot!

Answer 5

It all boils down to this: Check the dog's run with a sharp, FORCEFUL jerk on the lead, with the command "NO!"
If you aren't strong enough to stop her, get someone else to train her.... or get a smaller dog.

Answer 6

get some weights and bulk up. if u have one of those esxtendable leaches, get rid of it and get a shorter one. and or get a water bottle to go with u and spray him/her in the face when he disobeys. it wont hurt him, and will help because they dont like it

Answer 7

I dont think u can.Some dogs just love chasing birds.Its natural

Answer 8

carry around a tazer on a stick, and whenever you see your dog go for a bird, shock your dog. he'll learn eventually.

Answer 9

watch the dog whisperer maybe you'll get your answer there. well i think pull her leash a little hard and say no every time that happens

Answer 10

I have a coonhound and we have a similar problem with him: he wants to chase every squirrell he sees. Here's how we've worked with him to get him to stop (though keep in mind, this is a long process-things don't change overnight):

-Working on keeping his attention more on me. I noticed that when walking him, he hardly ever looked back at me like our other dog does. So, I began to reward him every time he'd look at me on our walks. I carried treats with me (just little tiny ones, or even just his regular dog kibble--he really likes food!) and every time he'd glance back at me, he'd get a treat. He caught on REALLY quickly. Soon, I started only giving him treats when he was walking next to me and looking at me. Now I only give him treats when he walks next to me for a longer period of time and keeps his attention on me.

-Giving him another option besides pulling. The fact of the matter is, your birddog and my coondog are genetically programmed to chase things. I'm not going to change that, at least not any time soon. What I can do is present my dog with another option for when he sees a squirrell aside from lunging and pulling on his leash. When I notice that he's got his eye on a squirrell, I say "Stop" and I stop walking myself. He then backs up a few steps and sits down next to me. I trained him to do this, by not letting him move forward when he begins to pull, and by asking him to sit when we stop. Yes, sometimes I had to push on his bum in order to get him to remember that he even has one (those of you with hunting breed dogs will know what I'm talking about here), but once he figured out that there was really no other option in this situation, and that he could still watch the squirrells even when sitting, he caught on. He's still watching the squirrell like a hawk, and aside from putting blinders on him he's always going to do that. But after a second of sitting next to me, watching, he begins to get bored because he knows he can't actually chase it. I give him a treat when he refocuses his attention back on to me and we continue our walk. We may have to do this several times, but for me it is way preferable to having my arm pulled off and having to wrestle with him.

Find something your dog loves (for me, it's food) and give him that when he walks well, when he gives his attention to you, and when he leaves off the bird-chasing.

My coondog came home to live with us in April. Before that, he was someone's hunting dog and had never walked on a leash or lived indoors before. If we can accomplish getting him to knock it off with the squirrells, anyone can with their dog.