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Caring for a Hunting Dog

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I acquired a hunting dog from a friend of mine that is moving and has no place for her at his new location. She's an 8-year old chocolate lab, professionally trained, and it seems very well trained. Very friendly, calm, quiet (I haven't heard her bark all week), and an all-around nice dog. I have some questions and I'm hoping for some advice. 

She was kept in a kennel much of the time. I don't care for kennels because with kennel raised dogs it forces them to use the kennel when they have to relieve themselves. So now, at my home (country home) she does what she basically has done all her life, that is, she uses the lawn to relieve herself. We have about 1-acre of lawn surrounded by a grove of trees. Any other dog we've owned seemed to naturally just use the trees so this is a new experience for me. Any ideas on how I can retrain her to go off the lawn?

Another more serious issue is that she wants to follow our vehicles when we leave. From what I've been reading I suspect it could be separation anxiety. For now, we are forced to tie her up when we leave to prevent her from following and as with kennels, I don't like to tie dogs up because this forces her to use the lawn to relieve herself so it is reinforcing another undesirable habit. I know she would stay in the yard if she didn't see us leave because one time she managed to get off her chain while we were gone and I found her sitting on our deck waiting when I got home. We can leave her loose outside all day long and she stays in the yard so long as she doesn't see anyone drive away. But any time someone is going to leave the yard we have to watch and be ready to call her back right away so she stays in the yard.  I suspect this may be one way of training her and I'm hoping that as time goes on she will learn that we do come back and hopefully she will relax. Any ideas how we might be able to train her to stay in the yard.

I don't know much about caring for a hunting dog so any other ideas or tips would be much appreciated. 

Thanks,

Bob

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I'm sure others will have better ideas but my only thought it may be hard to train for a spot if she has free reign over the yard 24/7.... I would think you may have to kennel at first and bring out for bathroom in the spot you want on leash. Once you have that pattern down bring out off leash to the spot. Try and do this at the same times everyday. After that let he have free reign but go to that spot at the same times you let her out before and call her over and have her relieve herself. Once that pattern is established let her have complete free reign hopefully that builds a pattern and she will know that is where to go.

I only say this because with my dog I started bringing him out on leash to potty train then off leash with me walking out with him then just letting him out. All though I wasn't trying to get him to go to that one spot it seems like that is his prefered spot now whenever I let him out. I will say though if we are out in the yard doing stuff away from that spot if he has to go he will go.

hopefully others will chime in as I don't have experience with trying to train a dog to go in one spot or a dog that has free reign of the yard. Just simply noticed when I did what I did he prefers to go in that spot over others.

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