KnuckleDragr
Active Member
I remember one of the seminars at the deer classic a couple years back about shed dogs. If I'm not mistaken, I believe the guy trains them from newborn until like 6 months before turning them over to the new owners. By then they have learned the fundamentals and are ready to go. I think they also train drug dogs and such as well. I can't for the life of me remember what his name was. But he made these dogs out to be the best of the best for people that are very serious about shed hunting dogs. Maybe someone on here remembers what his name is or any other info about him?
Booner
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Jeremy Moore, the Dog Bone Hunter! That dude is a shed wiz! Just talking with him for 20 minutes briefly helped me tremendously transition my lab pup at the time into a shed fool! He definitely knows his stuff!
Here's the website: http://dogbonehunter.com/antler/
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Lucky13
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I have a choc lab that i sent off to be trained for watefowl hunting...since moving here Id love to have a shed dog...do you guys think it would be tough to get him to be a shed dog...in the two years he hunted watefowl up in nodak id say he retreived somewhere around 1500+ birds so he knows how to hunt..just think it would be neat to have him out with my wife and i this spring
Booner
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1500 retrieves, that's impressive! I think if i lived in the Dakotas I'd give up deer hunting, nothing more enjoyable than watching a good lab work a downed duck on water.
But from my experience: I jumped my pup into sheds from Day 1. She slept, ate, and played with a shed 24-7. I found that it needs to be a game and they obviously have to have the drive to please you, sounds like you already have that covered. It honestly didn't take much to get her into a training mode either, she had the drive to work a bird and I just treated the shed in the same manor. I'd say, depending on how much time you have, you should be able to get him into working order. I won't lie however, hearing the clinking of antler on teeth then seeing your hard work pay off in the form of a running pooch to your feet with an antler almost makes ya never wanna pick another shed up without em there!
bkcrrtnps
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It doesn't say anything about raising a dog, training then selling it to you??
Tom Dokken or Roger Sigler in Missouri. There is another guy that breeds and trains them in Northern Utah too. I will try to look up his name. Those are the only guys that i know you can buy a fully trained dog from. I hope you dont mind spending money...... There are a lot of guys that try and sell dogs and advertise them as "shed dogs." Just because you have a picture of the sire with an antler in his mouth does not mean you breed shed dogs. My advise would be to find a good breeder for hunting dogs in your area. I chose a pointing lab breed, the kennel had no history with shed dogs but produced dogs with a strong hunting drive. I did the research and trained my own. Its a ton of work but i GUARANTEE that my dog can perform as well as a dog you are going to pay $6500 for.
Same with me Booner! My dog has never had a toy other than an antler. It is his game! We do 50-75 retrieves a day and he absolutely lives for it. My pup was only 8 months old when we started shed hunting last year and to be honest, i about teared up when i saw him come over the hill with his first "solo" shed! I feel the same way you do, i would rather let me dog go pick them up any day.
Booner
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Yea his website does appear a bit lacking information ( I didn't check it out prior to posting). But from actually talking to him and watching the way he interacted with dogs first hand was another story. Everything he talked about he nailed and it made perfect sense. I had grown up around "Hunting" dogs and had an idea how to get my pup started. Jeremy keyed on certain points and little tips and tricks that I would have overlooked for sure. My advice would be to do some research or email him personally, all I know is the guy definitely got me started in the right direction. But if you don't have the time to train one, I'd say your only option would be to pay top dollar for a started dog. And like Cjgarrett said, your not touching a finished dog for under a 3000.00 bucks
KnuckleDragr
Active Member
Roger Sigler sounds familiar for some reason. I know Jeremy wasn't who I was thinking of in particular.