Pup's first "Hunt"

[SnowDog]

Took the pup out to Cooke Canyon yesterday for some simulated hunting / training. Put out a dozen Chukar for her and she did great. Really fun to watch her learn to use her nose and sort out that "cover = birds".

I took her older "brother" out with us and put out some roosters for him. For the last two birds I let them hunt together. Not a god idea. While they hunted great and covered separate ground in range, neither of them would retrieve. It was the strangest thing. My ROCK SOLID older lab just sat there and looked at the bird. It was like he was too lazy to pick it up and expected her to do the "dirty work" while he went back to hunting. This dog alone is near perfect in delivery to hand. Gota get that sorted out pronto.



Cheers!
SD

[seth30]

Great job

[Birdguy]

Good looking pups and a nice tune up for the season.

[ctwiggs1]

Let me know if you figure out the trick.  My Britt hates picking up birds and I can't figure out why.

[bracer40]

Let me know if you figure out the trick.  My Britt hates picking up birds and I can't figure out why.

My current Brit wanted nothing to do with picking up dead birds either.................until I trained him to retrieve on command.
Nobody got hurt in the process but it did take months of almost daily lessons that progressed through the various steps.
Now he's a rock start retrieving machine (most of the time, he is after all still a dog with a mind of his own!)