Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Bird Dogs => Topic started by: waortah54 on November 04, 2012, 01:46:08 AM
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I just got a new pup she's a pointer and blue heeled mix. I know the pointers are good but not to sure if the cattle dog will taint her ability. How should I go about training her for birds? Any suggestions will be good
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Get her around birds as much as you can. Also get her used to gunfire but carefully, don't want to scare her. Shooting a cap gun from a distance when you give her food works well.
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Healers are generally really smart dogs. I had a lab healer mix that I could give a ball or bird to and tell her to fetch to a person she knew with the command "Fetch to....". She knew about dozen names. I could also throw a ball, frisbee, adn stick and tell her to get whichever one I wanted in whatever order I wanted.
However, the smartness also lead to an easily bored dog that got into trouble. The key to that turned out to be a mile or two run next to my bike every day after work.
The healer genes might make it harder to get her to hold to a point since they like to "guide" what they are chasing or looking for.
Good luck and have fun.
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:yeah:
lets see some pics!!
