dogs and tractor sense

It's been years since I've dealt with a puppy and all my previous border collies all demonstrated health respect for the tractors from the get-go. Rain is only 14 weeks and he's careful about 90%. I'm just worried and would like to hear your experience and opinions. Have your dogs developed a respect or just started that way? Any tricks to teaching them? Currently Rain will stay a good 30 feet away while its moving but if I stop or make eye contact, then he's right up around the tires.
Thanks in advance.

We had a stupid dachshund who liked to run just in front of the right rear tire. Never could get him to run behind the tractor until one day the tractor was a little faster than he was....

I have a husky mix that has been run over by a pickup once, but still likes to just run around by the tires, under the tractor while it's moving. I have to get off and put him on the platform with me cause he makes me nervous, it just doesn't seem to bother him getting that close to the tires still. I never was a dog person, but when my son offered a pup I couldn't refuse, it's sure funny how animals can work into your heart. I don't go anywhere without him now. I think the wife thought it was good, so at least I wasn't talking to myself. Lol

I've got a collie mixed girl, she's 8, I've had her since a pup, can't take her to the field if using the tractor, she just won't stay away from it far enough that I can trust not hitting her. If at home using the tractor to blade or haul wood she'll trot along right in front of the left front wheel, and I have to watch, cause she just might stop to pee. Love her too much to hurt her, and she's terrified of the chain saw, so if she sees me put it on the tractor, she won't come along.

Mine has gotten really good about it. It took getting bumped pretty good with a running gear once but she now keeps her distance. She's a six year old border Collie.

Property adjoins an elk preserve.Whenever the elk get into my apple trees I go out on the deck and yell "get out of here", the lab has taken this to mean chase the elk down to the field.

Was mowing with the sickle bar one day in 3' grass, herd of elk moved in with some babies on the other side.
The lab kept getting in front of the sickle chasing rodents, almost got her twice.
Finally stopped the tractor and yelled at her "get out of here" of course she headed for the heard, did I mention babies, next thing I know a momma is chasing the lab across the field, never saw that dog move so fast, other dog was sleeping in the shade and she chased her home, came towards the tractor drooling and stomping her feet, "guess I'm done mowing for today

Training my first puppy now german shepherd 11 weeks old and twenty five pounds. Had pound dogs and give away ones before they learned pretty quick neighbor had one follow him to field to cut hay went and layed down in field and you can guess the rest. dogs and tractors just don't seem to mix

I teach my animals the meaning of the word "NO!". Every time I have to go somewhere or do something where they shouldn't be, the instant they start going, I just say 'no. Even the cat knows what the word means. *lol* And the nicest part is, the word doesn't apply to just one thing. If we start to leave the house, I used to have to say 'No.' Followed by 'Watch the house while we're away.' or some such thing. Now I don't have to use the word 'No.' when leaving as they know when we start loading up the truck, that we'll be leaving. But Heaven help us when we get home! *lol*

I have a Jack Russell - Beagle cross and he likes riding in cars or truck but
won't ride on tractor. I don't think he likes the noise of tractor because he will run away from it.

I think the hunting type dogs are worse at running right in front of the tractor or car. It's instinct. Last dog I had was a chocolate lab. When I was pushing snow with the tractor he would run right in front of the tractor all the way down the yard and right behind the tractor when I backed back up the yard. He would do that all afternoon if I didn't yell at him to stop. He did that when he was 10 years old, the instinct never left.

I had a border collie named Jake, he was always pretty good around the tractors and loud equipment, kept his distance. He wasn't to bad around trucks but one day he got to close and got run over by a trailer. I miss that dog, his death has led me to have dogs ride in the truck with me or have them tied up while we are working.

We once had a German Shepherd when I was a kid who had to be the dumbest dog ever. I always said that dog was living proof that God has a sense of humor.

He never went around tractors or farm machinery. I think he was just to stupid to be interested. His only redeeming quality was with my sister playing the piano and me playing the fiddle we could get him to howling so loud our parents would throw all three of us out of the house.

We had a dog, mix of several different breeds, who was my daughter's most cherished friend. The dog was slow-moving, not excitable, and was patient to endure all the things my daughter put her through. One day when my daughter was about 11, she and the dog walked down to the property adjoining mine to watch log-skidder at work. The dog was just ambling around, paying no particular attention to the skidder. Her mistake. Right before my daughter's horrified eyes the skidder backed over her dog. Major trauma for both.

My Border collies and Australian Shepherds have made it an objective to stay clear of moving machines. Run 30 to 50 feet away, but no crossing in front. Jim

Another fiddler. What do you prefer to play? I'm confirmed old time.

Actually, I never went very far with it. Due to a childhood accident, I'm missing my left index finger to the second joint. What I did play was mostly square dance tunes, Turkey In The Straw, Redwing, etc.

I gave up on a guitar, also. I even tried to play one left handed and that didn't work.

all my dogs respect life ,,. especially when they are health y young and strong ,, however , i recall my white female spitz, that helpt us raise our 4 children ,,.. she was a puppy when the oldesrt daughter was in 1st grade .. the kids were grownand gone and it was just me and Queenie , she missed them terribly ,and to add insult to injury, she had tumors on her back and neck and i knew she had arthritis bad ,and her dawg yrs were in the 80s , her health was really poor ,.i was greasin and oilin up the haybine to mow hay ,, i had the haybine runnin , and i noticed queenie had got within 3ft of the rotating tines and seemed ro be rokin in rythum like a child getting ready to jumpin a jump rope ,. i shut down the haybine and she went over in the shade and lay down ,, was she thinking of endin it all and jumpin the haybine was a tikit out of this world???,,. i luved up on Queenie and gave her a hotdog with a aspirin in side it , then went on and cut the hay ,,. acouple weeks later , while my 2nd son was here she passed away under the tree with him strokin her to giveher comfort ,,.we buried her together

labs are dum luvers and fools ,, i had a beautiful polar bear white lab puppy ,, my sara named him BEAR ,. he was almost a full grown puppy and would do anything for saea ,, he just loved her ,, he was ok hangin out with me while she was gone and respected all moving equipment ,, but i was ho hum compared to being with sara ,. i recall wrenching on something and thinkin sara will be home within the hour,,. i heard Bear go HumpPh,. and jump up and run in circles waggin his taill , then run out to the drive ,.. he could hear Sara and the car make the turn , and come up the serpentine hill a mile away !!, couple minutes later there she was in the lane with BEAR getting crazily close to her door ,just wanting to be w ith her !! ,, Sadly one day he STUPIDLY misjudged the wheels turning radius as she routinely turnecd in toward the garage doors, bear got run over by the back tire , breaking his pelvis and rendering his urinator impossibly broken , ,,. the poor dog could not pee ,.,. after 48 hrs , we were advised to put him down ,,. My Sara was Heartbroken,,. because she really felt she kilt the dog ,,. it took alot of reassuring from me and others to convince her that BEAR was reckless and a loof about thereal true dangers of moving heavy wheels ,,. but the reality in my mind is that BEAR wanted to be with Sara so bad he wantedto jump under the car and find a way inside to be with her,,.,..

We had a couple of Blue Tick hounds when I was young. One was bright as a whip. The other was about the dumbest animal I'd ever seen, but I've always thought that might have been due to possible vision problems. ...The dang dog kept wanting to haul butt as fast as possible straight for a tree -- WITHOUT STOPPING!! Never saw him run towards anything else. But as we lived in the SE Texas Piney Woods, this dog was pretty much doomed from the start! *lol*

My border collie is nuts around equipment, tries to herd it when running, leaves it alone if not running.

She was trained and respects invisible fence, I am going to get shock collar and work on equipment