Advice On Runaway Lurcher

[bird 9,986]

Be very careful with your body language,when they see the old shoulder drop they know they have p### you off..

or a clenched fist only joking lol, your right all dogs what ever the breed, read your body language, and I reckon your voice its hard to trick them .lol my colliex Bryn terrible for it , he never takes his eyes of you, I have to look anywhere than at him, or I do get fed up of it, don't know why he cant act like a normal dog, instead of a robot type thing . don't know what would be worse him or a saluki x lol .

[darkjack86 33]

I had this problem with my young saluki mix, l know this prob. isn't helpful, but she actually outgrew it totally by 12 months old and is good as gold now.

 

ln the meantime, when she ran from me, l ignored her, turned my back on her, walked away, she soon tired of the 'game' and followed me.

 

Hope this helps

[jigsaw 11,899]

my pure saluki bitch did the exact same.would put the brakes on a few hundred yards before it came to the van,No way on earth would it come to me,I made threaths under my breath as to what I would do to her,It lasted 3-4 months.Somehow I just let it relax and after she reached 12 months she was spot on.My advice is to just wear the frustration with a smile,and she will just be spot on after she matures.I dont kinda go with the back to basic stuff with a saluki type breed,I left mine be themselves and spent a lot of time one to one with them,and thet are the grandest dogs now.Deep breaths and humm your favourite song and smile,it'll sort itself out in no time.

[border lad 1,047]

this dog, had the same problem, recall, was when he wanted to come to me, I received this dog when he was about 10 months old, his training was about zero, and he was extremely nervous, the only way i could get into that dog was by very good exercise every day and of course schooling to go with the exercise, one morning, i took him out myself on the ole bike, we got to a good field were there was some nice rabbits, I slip him he missed but he carried on hunting, after some time he come back towards me but only about 10 to 15 yards away, I sat for about another 5 minutes no he was not coming into me so i said right i am off home for a cup of tea, which was about 1 mile away, I went home had a cup of tea, I said to my lass, we will have to go and get that dog, As I drove up the road, ((( up a long climb) as I reach the top of the hill, I saw the dog coming towards us in the car carrying a rabbit, I pull up beside the dog, the boot was open, I opened from the inside, pulling the lever, down by my seat, the dog jumps in Rabbit and all, after all the work, I put into him he, then decided to have a go at Sheep, and I said enough is enough, this is the dog, he had pace to burn, elasticated, he was was like a guided missile when he was locked on to his quarry, He was bred down from Lucky,

 

[morton 5,368]

Ive a 6mth old saluki x lurcher bitch,she has always been fine on and off the lead alone and with other dogs when i walk her. A couple of mths ago she lagged back on a walk abd woukd'nt come to me when we were ready for leaving the field for home,i walked towards her and she went back uo the field 100yds or so when i walked towards her again she went back again,i walked off the field and left her there,she did eventually follow me back to the house and i put her away,didnt let her off the lead for weeks after. This evening i walked her with another dog and let her off the lead,she took off up the field and went about 400yds,i called her and she just stood looking,called her again and she took off,continued my walk (was about 9pm so dark) and when i got home she was nowhere to bee seen,jumped in the motor and had a quick spin see if i could see her,but nothing,id given up and about 20mins ago i looked out the window and she was on the drive,ears in the air and looking a bit panicked,i went out,she was sheepish but plsd to see me,have just put her back in the kennel and left her. Any suggestion as to why she is just deafing me out and taking off and any advice on correction,im not a patient person but really do like this pup,had her since 10wk old dont want to be hasty with her but the running off is not practical in a lamping dog. Thanks in advance,id prefer replies of lads and lasses that have had this problem and corrected it not just online experts with their 2 pence wirth.

Find a secure area,i used a tennis court,take the dog in and walk away and ignore it,as it moves towards you walk away and carry on doing this every time it approaches you,after it as made a few attempts let it approach you and praise it,do this a couple of times with a retrieve training thrown in.Don,t let the dog off the leash unless its at home and go through this exercise until the pup is bouncing back to you,then back to the fields and see if it works,if not back to the tennis court.

[Guest alcapone]

Well i took the advice of back to basics and rebond with the pup,hasnt been off the lead since,tonight is the first time,100% recall everytime. Tried tug play,everytime i reached down for the toy my wooley hat was taken off my head as she headed up the field shaking it,she is a different dog,big mistake on my behalf but we seem to have it sorted now. Just a thanks to them that replied.

[skycat 6,174]

That's so good to hear: once you have a dog that is willing to play with you, have fun, you are more than half way there.

[Blackdog92 2,047]

Ive got a sheepdog bitch that I got given when she was about 18months she seemed totally fine keen as mustard for work( I got her because the lad who had her didn't see the potential in her lucky for me) until she got a couple hundred meters away from me and so I would shout her name to call her in and she would just take off tail Between her legs and nothing I could do would stop her. When I did find her she would crawl in to the tiniest place she could find and refused to come put and when I whent to pull her out she would squeal her head of and try to bite me.

It turned out that this lad had been knocking seven bells of s**t out of her for what he thought was misbehaving but he had no idea what he was doing with her.

To fix the problem I just got a really long peace of string and would spend hours coxing her in and making a fuss of her all the time and just building her up. She still has an outburst at times but I worked hard on the stop command so now when she looks like she's going to take off I just whistle an she will stop dead in her tracks till I get there. Were still working on it but it's easy to knock them down than build them up it's a long road but with time you will get there.

[matt1979 766]

Fair play to anyone who takes on an older dog, especially one that they hope to work, not sure i would ever do it myself as i dont think you can beat raising your own pup. If you get a pup raise it and train it and it has a few problems then you have to look at yourself and learn from the experience makes you a better handler i guess, if i took on somebody elses dog i knew little about and it had problems then i always think their would be a tendency to get frustrated and blame the rearing from a pup (probably rightly so) but this wouldnt be a good situation for the dog or handler. As i say fair play to those that do and get results, plenty of patience required and long term results the aim atb Matt