Not tractor but is Dog issue.

Just got a new 1yr old dog that wants to follow me on the road when test driveing tractors. How do i break it from doing this? I love this dog but am afraid that I will meet a car and they will not see it. I have a hard time of seeing a farm dog tied to a tree.

All help appreciated.

Thanks

Put the dog in a lot before you test drive the tractor.

Keep the tractor off the road.

Allan

So you'd take the chance of having him end up under a tractor tire instead of being tied up or kenneled for a few minutes?

Radio frequency shock collar. Requires no buried wires,sends out a signal from a transmitter.

Put him up on the tractor with you ?

Good one.

I cuss bikes on the road.

Others cuss tractors.

Gary

Spend some time working on "stay", then do it from a vehicle. You will probably have to stop, get out, and yell at him to get back and stay a few times, but its always worked for me.

By goly Allan,never thought of that.

rrlund, That might be the solution. Thanks

About 55 years ago we had a dog which followed Dad to the field where he was cultivating corn. The dog ran in front of him and that was the end of the dog. A couple years later we had another one which liked to chase cars; a neighbor girl hit him. Sometimes you can't do anything but watch them meet their maker.

Have a friend with one of those radio frequency collars on his dog.one day the collar battery was almost dead so it beeped.the poor dog thought it was about to be shocked so it froze in that spot for who knows how long!

My Chocolate Laboradork followed my tractors and pickup down the road for awhile till I finally got it in his head he shouldn't follow me. More than a few times I chased him back home with the pickup, following him so close I couldn't see him in front of the hood. At first I wasn't getting anywhere with him till finally I figured out yelling wouldn't work so I calmed down and became his friend. Once we were buddies he listened to me but it still took a long time for the message to sink in to him. I finally got him trained to stop at a certain boundary, the road bridge. He needed that visual boundary as a reminder. Age had a factor in calming him down too so I can't take all the credit for his training. When he was younger he would follow the tractor back and forth all day long when I was pushing snow if I didn't tell him to stop. When he got older he just stood and watched.I suspect he was hit on the road once because he came up lame in one rear hip for most of a year until he didn't favor it anymore but he still was dumb when he was around vehicles. Finally had to put him to sleep last spring and I don't plan to have any more dogs.

train the dog
if that doesn't work, tie him up.
tied up is better than dead
(a long cable run, a piece of chain, ring, and a hasp....he won't even realize he's tied up)

I have a shepherd that loves to follow the gator so he goes in his pen before I venture up the road to a neighbors. Can't imagine losing him.

Neighbor I used to have, said every time his dog followed him to the field, he would stop, go back and chain up the dog. After awhile the dog stopped following him. The dog was normally free to come and go!