common sense
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I have a 9 month old puppy that goes EVERYWHERE with me. He is very well mannered but when I am out in the tractor feeding cows he likes to get behind them and heel them. I am far enough away that I can't yell at him to stop. I had a friend suggest a training collar/shock collar but I just don't like them. They are also very expensive. I came up with another idea. I bought two walkie talkies for $35.00. They have a 12 mile range, which is plenty since I can't even see that far anyway. They also have a CALL option which makes a loud obnoxious noise to alert the person with the other walkie talkie. I also bought a pouch to for one of the walkie talkies and then velcroed it on my dog's collar. I was out in the tractor the first day and noticed that the dog was heading down our lane past his "boundary" lines. I pushed the call button and then told him no and I thought he was going to jump out of his hide. He high-tailed it back to the house and didn't move. Later he came out in the field with me and started after one of the cows. I hollered "NO" into my walkie talkie and he ran back to the barn and didn't move off the bedding pile until I was done. He kept looking around like God was talking to him or something. It was hilarious.
O.K., so here's another stupid idea...I am sometimes alone and don't have anyone to watch gates for me. I have almost perfected the tractor vault...that's when you can get the tractor in park and vault to the ground and back to the gatehole before the critters escape. Well, if I leave one of my walkie talkies near/in the gate hole I can scare the beejeebers out of any critter thinking about escaping. I am probably lining myself up for America's Funniest Home Videos but Macgyver would be proud of me! ;D
O.K., so here's another stupid idea...I am sometimes alone and don't have anyone to watch gates for me. I have almost perfected the tractor vault...that's when you can get the tractor in park and vault to the ground and back to the gatehole before the critters escape. Well, if I leave one of my walkie talkies near/in the gate hole I can scare the beejeebers out of any critter thinking about escaping. I am probably lining myself up for America's Funniest Home Videos but Macgyver would be proud of me! ;D