Border Collie as a deer dog????

[billpayer 0]

Anyone trained a collie with success as a deer dog??

[ftm 3,357]

never heard of it but they do possess loads of courage had one that took fox pre ban but that was when out mooching daytime hours i wouldnt put it past some one to have had one though

[Bobba_fett 117]

if it wasn't gun shy

[paulus 26]

seen one called fenton quite a famous deer dog

[dymented 2,220]

seen one called fenton quite a famous deer dog

:laugh:

[Ideation 8,216]

I've reached the point where i believe that if you are a competant enough trainer a decent collie can do pretty much most things, within reason.

[The one 8,408]

Aye border collies are one of the brighter breeds i reckon they could pick it up ,but some are hyper would they stay sitting lieing down at the bottom of a high seat as some breeds would ?.

[Neal 1,832]

Not exactly a fully trained deer dog but one of my kelpies has a great nose for deer and I often use her for a spot of "weekend deer watching."

 

Last year she found a kid in my local wood which, not only had I walked past several times, but my other two kelpies had also not noticed. Oddly, she doesn't show any signs of wanting to give chase which I would have assumed could have explained her keener interest in them than her sister and uncle. (Sorry: not very good English in last sentence...end of the week teaching 6 and 7 year olds all week)

Edited February 3, 2012 by Neal

[collieman 45]

yes bill payer I am on my third collie as a trained deer dog, good dogs and can be trained to bark when they have found

the deer which is abonus when they run into thick trees. I been lucky none of mine have been gunshy but it can be a

problem with a lot of them best to buy a pup from confident parents.