penninelad
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Advice please on high seat terriers! - how to get em up and keep them there?
Advice please on high seat terriers!
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Pop them in your backpack.
Depends on whether or not they are likely to open up if they see a deer. I took a Border bitch up once and once only in a haversack. She was as quiet as a mouse on my lap until I fired. She then took off from 15 ft up, very lucky she didn't kill herself, so never again. My Teckel would be looping the loop.up in a seat so no way unless a very quiet pooch.
Carry them and then use lots n lots of gaffa tape ? LOL!
Marrajack1
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Think it depends on the dog I have had calm steady ones and ones that would have tried to jump out as soon as it saw a mouse never mind a deer. They are cleverer than people credit them for. But the prey drive levels are all different. I had an old mate who dug 109s of Charlie’s with a dog but he could make it sit while he unnetted. I have also seen dogs that had to be wrestled like alligators to re couple in the same situation Best of luck one thing you will never ever have a better mate
NoIDeer
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As said leash it to the bottom of the ladder, if wind is right watch the dog not the surroundings. With mine if he sees a deer first I've got about 4 seconds to pull the trigger, 5 if I shoot the dog first. He doesn't come stalking often, having said that I've only blanked once with him.
You mean before it takes off and pulls the high seat over?
penninelad
Member
Thanks for all these replies - love the hilarity. I'm used to recently departed GWP who would sit untied beneath a high seat for hours until I needed him. Now I have an 11 month bitch (Lakey x JR) - she is amazingly good but don't want to leave her at the bottom of the high seat as I think its asking for the development of bad behaviour. I'll practice the deer sack on the ground for a bit and then up we go and secure her on the seat using a harness rather than collar. Well its worth a try - isn't it ???
I have a JR terrier that I wanted to use for deer tracking.
First, I trained him at home in the usual way, laying tracks with blood and cleaves. Easy.
Then I took him stalking, and he curled up quietly under the highseat and went to sleep. Easy.
Then I let him track and find a shot deer, which he did, no problem. Easy.
Ever since that day though he's done nothing but run around barking whenever I take him stalking. Or sit in the truck, barking. Right PITA. His short career as a stalking / tracking dog ended as quickly as it begun, and now he just catches rats around the farmyard which is, of course, what terriers do best.
that there dog of yours Tim ,but a cracker all the same 
Siggy
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You could try one of these or talk to Mr Ogden who might make one up for you...
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