Pike Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Here are some pics of our training sessions of my now 16 week old lab pup that I adopted on Feb. 1st. I try to work with him twice a day for 15-20 minutes at a time then just try to have fun and wear him out. (which is easier said than done)Pike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pike Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Shed Pup's First PA. Shed Hunt!!! I decided that the snow had melted enough to take Mojo out for his first shed hunt on Feb. 28th. We arrived at 1:50 PM. and started walking up the steep hill and into a large cedar thicket, there was a lot more snow than I thought there would be, varying between 6-12 inches with some bare spots under the cedars. We immediately got into deer trails and deer droppings and we started following one of the well used trails. Not even 150 yards from the truck I look at a bare spot about 18 yards to my left and I see a nice shed laying there, then I look 4-5 feet from it and I see another shed laying on the ground. I decided to stay put and let Mojo work the area until he finds them (even if it takes 3 hours) I then tell Mojo to find the bone as he is sniffing every deer track etc. and after 10 minutes or so he finds the larger shed ( a real nice 6-pt shed) he seemed as shocked as I was to find it laying there and just stood there for a minute, then he laid down and started chewing it and I told him to bring me the bone, which he did, I put on a rubber glove and took it and placed it in my back pack, then gave him a huge hug and a treat. After a couple minutes I was able to coax him to forget about the shed we found and he started to search again in the area of the first shed, after another minute or so he discovered the 2nd shed ( a 2-pt shed) and stood there like he was puzzled again, I then said bring me the bone, he picked it up and took off running with it this time instead of bringing it to me :grin: so I had to catch him to get it away from him and gave him another hug and another treat as he tried to get in my back pack laying on the ground. I was able to finally get him going back to searching but we didn't find any more sheds, just way too much snow and by 3:30 PM. he was plum tuckered out. Below are pics of our awesome afternoon. Pike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pike Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Shed Pup's 2nd. PA. Shed Hunt!!! I was able to get out for a couple hours March 3rd. with Mojo for our 2nd shed hunt and ended up finding one 3-pt shed and unfortunately a dead 1.5 year old buck. When I saw the shed laying there I told Mojo to find the bone and it took him about 5 minutes to locate it. Most of the snow should be gone by this weekend and I cant wait to get back out! Pike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pike Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Shed Pup's 2nd. PA. Shed Hunt!!! I was able to get out for a couple hours on March 3rd. with Mojo for our 2nd shed hunt and ended up finding one 3-pt shed and unfortunately a dead 1.5 year old buck. When I saw the shed laying there I told Mojo to find the bone and it took him about 5 minutes to locate it. Most of the snow should be gone by this weekend and I cant wait to get back out! Pike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pike Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Shed Pup's 3rd. PA. Shed Hunt!!! Mojo and I were able to get back out to the woods on March 7th. at about 3:30Pm. for our 3rd shed hunt of the year. (we were going to head to OH. today but there is still too much snow left on the ground) and hunted right up until dark and ended up finding 5 sheds today including a nice matched set which were laying about a half mile apart. Pike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pike Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Shed Pup's 1st. OH. Shed Hunt!!! Took advantage of the great weather and spent the last weekend in SE. OH. with Mojo and ended up finding 14 sheds and a dead 10-pt including one that Mojo found all by himself and brought to me!! It is the first shed he has found by himself without me seeing it prior to him! (the first pic.) The 2nd. pic. is of Mojo after I saw some gobblers and we got behind a bush and I told him to lay down and he did the entire time while I called them into 35 yards. The 3rd and 4th pics is of Mojo on the ATV., we road all over and every time I tried to put him on the ground he tried to jump right back on. (I might have spoiled him!) Pike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 great stuff!!! I have a golden retriever that I use to train to do this same thing....unfortunately I had kids and work got busier so my training time with him decreases.... I still take him with me often and he has found a few over the years! I can still remember those first few he found.....as you said he(my dog) was kinda shocked to find them! LOL :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckmaster Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 thats so cool that you have help from your dog! good finds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 What a good pup. Great pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Archer 01 Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 That is really cool. Awesome pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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