LEAVE your pup at home for this season,not even remotely close to being old enough.For Day tripping training since your in Bellingham I reccomend you going to the Acme Hunt Club,Jim will get you headed in the right direction and has a ton of gundog experiance(pointing and retriever/flusher,and experiance helping people to train their own dogs,he has packages for that as well,Contact # for him 595-0166.Seriously if you've never gun broke a dog before,don't think you can do it with a food bowl and starter pistol/capgun,or by taking the dog to the gunclub,It takes birds and excitement to divert the attention.Jim's got birds and has done 1000's of dogs over the course of 30+ years.