Barking tracking dog

[foreigner]

I am the proud owner of a 5 months old BMH.
He really know what the point is of heaving a nose.
I would like to teach him to bark when he finds the deer.
Really don’t know what to do. If a leave a complete roe skin with the head on, and he finds it he just smell end grab the deer skin..
Any suggestions welcome
Ron

 

[rem284]

A word of warning, they become more vocal even when you don't want them to be.

 

[ruger77]

If it’s not barking that’s a good thing put a tracking collar on the dog

 

[th32]

My teckel/jadgterrier cross doesn´t bark if I´m with her or around, but if she realises I´m not there will bark and then look for me and take me to the animal. Never taught that, she just does it.

Have you tried not to be around when he finds the deer?

 

[Loler UK]

My BMH didn't bark at a head / skin on a training track and he still doesn't. He's developed 3 distinct voices, one when a track gets hot to tell to be let off/ let me know we're on top of it, another when he is in sight of the beast 'on the chase' and his baying bark.

If the deer isn't alive when he finds it he still doesn't bark when he finds it either.

He barks if we play a tug, bay, chase game with a skin or head at the end of a track

My hound is fortunate to have had quite allot of work, once he had his first mobile deer it certainly seemed to flick a switch no tug game or stinky food treat will ever compare to the reward of an angry sika stag.

If you really want to teach your hound to bark at inanimate objects to indicate them then start by putting the skin/head at the end of the track on a rope that leads up a tree and back along the direction of the track so that you can jiggle it before the dog reaches it then pull it up out of his reach and jiggle it more rev him up and praise the bark. Evolve the drill until he barks at the static head, hiding on the approach & ignoring him until he barks may help.

Honestly though i wouldn't bother, when it comes to real tracks the dog will learn just fine

 

[Bowland blades]

When will the dog definitely bark ? Just associate the bark with a command word and reward ! Personally i am not keen to encourage barking most dogs will bark when they need to summon up help , find that trigger and reward .
Will the dog start bark if you hold something like food high over its head in flustration / exitement ? Mine wont as i keep labs but the GWP i had would bark at almost anything and it was a PITA. Be careful what you wish for , most dogs will bark to summon help / assistance

 

[sean]

No harm in a dog that barks/bays when it has located a wounded or dead deer, it’s a positive thing. My 9 year old HS bitch does not bark and it can be a pain in the arse when she had found a dead deer out of sight. I have a 6 month old dog who very vocal, I tie a skin up in the air just high enough that he can just reach it. He will bay at it for ever.

 

[sean]

Bob at 6 months Rubi at 9 years

 

[foreigner]

Thank you all for your toughts ! I will see how it goes when he does a real track.
@ th32, no because he is still young i want to see how he’s doing , his reaction…
Btw this is my first tracking dog, all my previous dog were pointers.

 

[roaring_stag]

My BMH does not bark on finding her deer, and I never did try and train this into her - as others have suggested above, I was warned off this as some will then just bark at every deer they see - alive or dead!

Interestingly, when she was pregnant, she did begin to bark at dead deer when finding them , however since her litter this has stopped again.

Just get a track collar/GPS system and you’ll find them no bother.

 

[kenbro]

Would an Apple Air Tag be useful in a tracking situation?
Ken.

 

[Jon P]

Would an Apple Air Tag be useful in a tracking situation?
Ken.

I believe you would have to have another I phone close by to bounce off and have phone signal.

 

[kenbro]

I believe you would have to have another I phone close by to bounce off and have phone signal.

Ha,
Just been googling, hadn’t realised they worked via Bluetooth.
Thanks, Ken.

 

[BuckarooUK]

I'd follow others suggestion to fit a tracking collar. I wouldn't deliberately encourage it to bark.

A friend got himself a bloodhound and it's a nightmare. Lovely big dog that stops for nothing once on a trail, but never shuts the **** up! We spent a very frustrating night trying to find a deer that someone had wounded. There was no doubt that it was on the right trail, but the deer could hear the dog from a long distance away and continually move.