When it is hungry, it will definitely rely on its instinct to catch some animals to satisfy its hunger, such as hares, pheasants, wild ducks, and other small animals.
A few will even hunt roe deer.
But it is almost impossible to go into the mountains and find wild boars. It is even less likely to find black bears and brown bears.
Because in the cognition of untrained dogs, they have no idea that wild boars and bears are their prey.
Therefore, even if a dog smells the scent of a wild boar or black bear, it will not pursue it.
This situation is normal, and if you want to train them into hunting dogs, you must rely on dragging.
Drag, easy to understand.
It is the owner who drags the dog onto the hunting trail.
So how to implement it specifically?
It's very simple. One is to let them know the smell of wild boars and black bears, and the other is to let them know the benefits of killing wild boars and black bears.
Although these are two points, one way can solve them all. That is to let them taste wild boar and black bear meat.
These days, it’s not easy for people to eat, and it’s not easy for dogs to eat either.
You definitely don’t have to think about dog food.
For dogs like this in rural areas, after ten or twenty years, their owners will boil cornmeal noodles in boiling water and feed them to them.
If you have leftover vegetable soup, it's fine to pour it into it. Usually, you just sprinkle some salt on it to give it some flavor and add some salt.
If this is still the case twenty years later, let alone the current situation. Some people have difficulty eating. They don’t even have enough cornstarch and noodles to eat at home. How can they still feed the dogs?
Therefore, when dogs are fed in rural areas of Northeast China, they usually feed them some potatoes and melons, mash them well and sprinkle some salt on them.
Under such conditions, being able to eat a meal of meat is undoubtedly the greatest happiness in a dog's life.
When dogs have eaten wild boar or black bear meat, and they are satisfied with it. When they go up the mountain and smell the scent of wild boar or black bear, they will know how to chase and bite them.
Because at this time, the dog already knows that the creature with this smell can be eaten by it, and it is still delicious.
Of course, some dogs actively pursue prey, while others passively pursue prey.
The dog that actively pursues prey is the alpha dog.
This dog means the leading dog. They chase prey mainly by their sense of smell. The sense of smell of dogs is called Xiangtou in Dawei.
There are good and bad incense heads. If you can smell it far away, it is naturally good.
In addition to good and bad, there is also a fragrance that lowers one's head and a fragrance that raises one's head.
The hunter hunts the prey through the footprints left by the prey and the scent left by scratching the grass and tree branches.
This kind of head dog is pretty good in snowy days and after rain.
But now, in late autumn, when the ground is covered with dead leaves and prey will not leave footprints on the ground, the bow-down incense is not effective.
At this time, the hunting dogs with fragrant heads are very powerful. When they raise their heads and smell, they can smell the scent of prey from the air flow driven by the wind, and then pursue the prey.
It can be seen that, as far as scent heads are concerned, the head dogs with raised heads are far better than those with lowered heads. However, the heads of scented dogs with raised heads are too rare, and most of them are scented with lowered heads.
In Dawei, there is also a kind of dog that knows how to attack prey, but does not know how to find it.
This kind of dog is called a helper dog.
When hunting with help dogs, they must be led by the leader dog. When the leader dog catches up with the prey and barks at it, the help dogs will attack.
Although the personality of dogs is not as changeable as that of cats, you cannot deny that no matter which group there are, there are alternatives.
Some dogs run around in the mountains. Even if they run into a wild boar, even if they know it is prey, they will not even bite the wild boar.
In this way, dogs must wait for their companions to arrive. If one dog comes first, they will follow closely.
There is also the kind of dog that eats white meat. When fed with meat, it eats less than anyone else. But when hunting, it follows its owner every step of the way. No matter how fierce the fight between its companions and the prey is, it just can't.
Go forward.
For such dogs, spanking and scolding are useless, and spanking will only make them more fearful.
There is no other way to treat them, either give up or continue to train them. Of course, such dogs may be dragged out, or they may not be dragged out at all.
This is a dog, simple yet complex. The most important thing that determines what they can grow into is not the hunter, but their talent.
Zhao Jun could tell that this big green dog had obviously never hunted before. For a dog like this, he had to put some thought into it.
As for the talent of the big green dog, Zhao Jun could tell at a glance that this dog would definitely be good in the future.
Having hunted for many years in his previous life, Zhao Jun had his own rules for looking at dogs.
First of all, it depends on the temperament of the dog. A dog that can hunt must be fiery and docile.
Secondly, for dogs of the same size and weight, if the dog's paws are relatively large, the chance of being able to pull it out is greater.
The last step is to look at the dog’s anus. The bigger the anus is, the more likely it can be pulled out.
Of the above three, a big green dog is just right.
And if the green dog is the first dog, if this is dragged out, it will definitely be the same.
Therefore, Zhao Jun decided to risk everything. It happened that he shot a wild boar yesterday. Although the big green dog did not contribute, in order to let it grow up quickly, he first let it taste the delicious food.
As for why Li Baoyu was asked to go home to get pig ears?
It wasn't that Zhao Jun was reluctant to part with his own meat, or that he couldn't find it after searching around just now.
He knew that if the wild boar meat was not in the house, it must have been put in the cellar by Wang Meilan.
There are no refrigerators these days, and if the pork is left outside for a long time, it will become stale or even go bad. The cellar is cooler, so it can be stored for a few more days.
But Zhao Jun thought about it and decided to take off the wild boar ears that were given to Li Baoyu and feed them to the big green dog.
There is also a way here.
The hunting dog goes up the mountain and bites its prey for the first time.
Wherever they bite for the first time, they will definitely go to that position if possible when they bite prey in the future.
This habit will only change when it is inconvenient.
For example, when hunting the wild boar yesterday, the large spotted dog that was trying to dig out the wild boar's back door changed its attack position after the wild boar sat down against the fallen log.
The places where hunting dogs bite wild boars are no more than these places.
There are those who bite the face and bite the pig's mouth. This is quite dangerous. If you encounter a boar, you will almost die or be injured.
Then there are those who bite pig ears, which are called hanging pliers in Dawei.
If someone has two dogs with pliers, one on the left and one on the right bites the two pig ears of the wild boar. Then the two dogs lean on the pig and kick their legs to tightly clamp the pig ears.
With his companions swarming over him, the wild boar basically couldn't escape.
Because when a wild boar attacks, it first relies on collision and the second relies on shaking its head. If the pig's head is restrained, it really can't rush or throw it away.
In addition, there are also big yellow dogs like Li Baoyu's family, which specialize in picking wild boars behind their elbows and under their armpits.
This area is full of live meat, and it is extremely painful to bite into it.
Of course, the ones that cause the most harm to wild boars are the large spotted dogs like Zhao Jun’s family that specialize in digging out back doors.
