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Teach your dog to find sheds.
Like most dog training teaching how to find sheds is conditioned behavior.
Start your shed dog training indoors.
The field being the end goal the first thing to work on is retrieving.
If you have spent countless hours walking through the woods up and down the mountainsides and racking up.
How to train your dog to shed hunt frequency.
How to train your dog to find antler sheds introduction.
You can use surveyor s tape or rope to mark the area and give the dog a guideline in the beginning.
Try tossing some deer antler sheds out in the yard and say a command such as go get it or get the antlers if your dog obeys your command and successfully retrieves the antlers give them a treat followed by lots of petting and praise.
Use the command find the bone and let them loose.
Then work with the dog on short retrieves.
Gradually increase the difficulty of this game and keep practicing for several weeks.
Hide a few sheds amongst bushes or tall grass careful not to spread them out too far apart.
This is one of the keys to successfully training your dog to find sheds in the wild.
The biggest thing your dog needs in order to be able to track down things like antlers is his sense of.
The more fetch you play the more you reinforce the behavior.
As your dog progresses and becomes more focused with age and practice you can start to work them into environments with more distractions.
You must have a positive attitude throughout the process.
Take a tennis ball and rub it on a shed the fresher the antler the better.
Reward retrieves with praise and treats and.