Dogs and tractors

My dog is half border collie and half jack Russell terrier. My problem is she likes to chase tractors, skidsteer and cars etc... I've tried a shockcollar and just telling her NO, but nothing seems to work. What's the secret? Do any of you have any tips or tricks??? Any help is appreciated
-Garrett.
 
Yeah, but you won't like it. I had a yellow lab that was the same way. One day I had a tree shear on the skid steer. I set it down by the fuel barrel to fill up. I didn't see the dog but I instantly heard her yelping. I picked it back up and it cured her. She never came around equipment again unless she knew I saw her.
 
A Border Collie is a herding dog, and a Jack Russell is a hyperactive dog. So what was your question?

I am pretty pessimistic about training such behavior out of that combination of dog breeds. A big tall fence might stop some of them, but others will just climb the fence. A chain and a harness might corral the dog until it gets old enough to slow down.
 
A fence might work. Won't for my dog. Figured that out when he climbed the hog panels leaning up against the small shed to get to the squirrel on the roof. So.... I guess the panels we bought to fence him in aren't quite the answer. Was going to try a wood fence, but he digs like a tiller so that won't work either. In the year or two that I've been trying to figure out how to contain the dog, he now listens & stays in the yard. Go figure. S'pose, if anything, you can just put your dog in the house or tie him up outside. Unless your dog is like mine & knows how to wiggle out of his collar.

Mike
 
Yeah, thats what I've been doing, When I run equipment she goes inside. Like your dog she can't be chained so I guess insides my only option
 
(quoted from post at 16:05:55 09/15/20) My dog is half border collie and half jack Russell terrier. My problem is she likes to chase tractors, skidsteer and cars etc... I've tried a shockcollar and just telling her NO, but nothing seems to work. What's the secret? Do any of you have any tips or tricks??? Any help is appreciated
-Garrett.

In my humble experience, the problem will take care of itself, sooner or later.

But you will miss the dog after she is "cured".
 
(quoted from post at 16:05:55 09/15/20) My dog is half border collie and half jack Russell terrier. My problem is she likes to chase tractors, skidsteer and cars etc... I've tried a shockcollar and just telling her NO, but nothing seems to work. What's the secret? Do any of you have any tips or tricks??? Any help is appreciated
-Garrett.
feel it. We just got in from looking for our dog. We think Lucas is a Huskey / Retriever mix. I forgot to chain him up at dusk. We have a 150' section of fence that does not have a bottom wire. He pulls it loose at the bottom and undoes the folds on the ends of the link. We also have Joe, a Boarder Colley / Pit mix. He does not like Possums. He'll jump till he pulls them off the 6' fence. He has killed a couple before I could get to him. Samson our German Shepherd hopped a 4' fence from a sitting position onto my neighbor's shoulders. We do not have trouble with them getting out. Just the yellow dog. When he gets out the two little ones, Daisy and Arnold go with him. One day I caught Arnold the Miniature Dioxin sitting outside the fence waiting for Lucas to make the new hole big enough for him to go through.


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When I was a kid we took in a 1 year old Lab. She wandered up stray and became permanent two days latter when she was hit by a vehicle. She had three broken legs and some ribs. The vet said she would live but her right front was crushed and wouldn't ever be right. He made a sling for it to where it froze curled up in a natural position. She chased cars for 15 or so more years and was hit a couple more times. A few snake bites latter Ebony died at 19 of old age. Two of our other stray dog's were killed following her. That spot I grew up at out in the country yielded several animals that died of old age. If they didn't die a violent death they died very old, happy and healthy. A 21 year old cat and a 19 year old rooster. The hens were almost his age. Just a few to mention.
 


When I was a kid we had two dogs that were run over and killed while chasing vehicles on the road. My father put up a long "run". It worked very well for many years. The collar was a chain "choke type. These days everyone around here uses invisible buried fence. Many people are not ambitious enough to follow the training procedure for them so they don't get them to work, but as you drive on the roads with a tractor or if you walk or run you can easily see that they do work.
 
We got a German Shepard right after we got married and we lived in the middle of nowhere but near a small road.
Dog started chasing cars and farm tractors.
I took a vinegar water mixture and would wet a rag and run to the dog after it chased a car and slap the rag on it's face.
Did not take but a couple of times and it stopped chasing cars.
It would still chase tractors and got rolled a few times by a disc and a grain drill behind the tractors.
She died of old age many years later.
 
My mother once told me that she counted up 19 dogs that us four brothers had over the years at home. This was before leash laws and I don't remember anyone we knew who kept a dog inside nor anyone who walked their dog. We didn't live on a farm but just at the edge of town. If we lost a dog, there was always someone who had another one available.
 
Sometimes you have to try a little bit harder to out smart the dog.

It is actually very rare that the dog out smarts the owner.

Unless the owner just views the dog as an expendable and not worthy of the effort.
 

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