Australian heelers for yotes?

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quicknick

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IVe had experience with queenslands as family dogs and working cattle dogs. Ive noticed that usually queenslands are adaptable to basically any situation and I was curious if anyone here uses queenslands for yotes as either decoy's or finish dogs. Ive never heard of this but I know they are [beeep] smart and gritty(cant count how many ive seen get kicked in the head multiple times and keep going). I guess I could see them trying to herd the yote more than anything though lol.

Probably a dumb thought but what the [beeep].
 
Our dog is an Australian cattle dog and I use her as a decoy a lot she works good. She had great ears and eyes and its sad to say but she is smarter then I am lol. If my memory serves me right Duane use to run a cattle dog on yotes also. She is still young they say they really start to come into their mind when they hit two years old. rp
 
I think ive seen some of your other pics of her. Shes good looking for sure, i'll always have a soft spot for heelers, especially blues. Thats what I grew up with.
 
I had one, and was really exited about him, but he was psycho. He would bite everything. He had snipped at me on occasion, but one day he snapped at my three year old son... he had to go. Im sure if you got a good one, that grit would come in handy. I wouldnt hesitate to use one if thats what your comfortable with
DaFUnk
 
You want honest, here it is. My start in decoy dogs was a "mantracker bred queensland heeler." Was he the best?... Not even close, but at 20 years old, he was the only dog I had.
I trained him with a boot, no e-collar, no tracking collar.
He was one of the best dogs I ever owned.
We had 400 + legit decoys in his ten year carreer.
Those numbers don't sound that great, but 6 of his 11 years was in MN,in thick country, with low yote numbers.
My point is you can do about anything with about any dog if you have the time, and desire.
 
The first coyote that I ever decoyed with a dog was my blue heeler. She wasnt a fan of any kind of gun fire. When I shot that coyote she wasn't impressed, not one bit. For the rest of the day if I stopped the truck she would jump out and run the other direction. This was the one and only time that I ever fired a gun around her. She was a pretty shy dog, and wasn't to keen on people. She wasn't aggressive at all unless you came around the kids, then she was always in-between them and you.
 
A little off the subject of coyotes but the first dog we ever ran cats with was an Australian, that is all we had at home and did not know any better. I have had a lot of hounds since then and the Australian and an Australian cross hound where no slouch when it came to cats. What I like about them most is they never made a sound till they jumped the cat and the chase was then over. 90% of the time the cat was in the tree within a couple hundred yards of where they jumped them.
No picture of the dog but I do have a picture of one of the first cats I ever treed and it was with a lone Australian, I am 6'2" 200 lbs for reference to the size of the cat.
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Here is one with my Australian cross hound.
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I know lots of guys that tree, catch , bay ,lions with cowdogs.
When dogs work, they work, who cares about breed????
Nice cat you got there.
 
wow nice cat! I guess im lucky Lucy does not mind gunfire one bit. We started her young and now its just a part of the game to her. rp
 
Yeah she is working on stand we have been keeping her on a 50 foot lead just cause well she is still hard headed and I dont want her to get a hair up her butt and take off after someting. But wow her ears and eyes can spot a yote way before I ever get a chance. She has not be out enough cause of my health problems but the times she has been out she has worked great! rp
 


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