For Greg - New Fur Missile

[jtallen83]

My dad raised and trained bird dogs when I was young.  By 4-5 months the pup had to come from out of sight to investigate when he fired a starter pistol. This and point at a little bundle of feathers he would hide. If they didn't do these two things then he didn't invest any training time in them, just sent them down the road.

[shepp]

13 hours ago, Hotwrench said:

Good plan sketch.  Does anyone have any additional thoughts?

One thing I learned from my friend when scolding don’t clap, something I’ve always done (never had a bird dog) I yelled at his pup and clapped this summer and he’s like yea that’s a no no that clap can be associated with a gun shot 

[Magwa]

Bird dogs used to be my passion I chuckar hunted on the Salmon Breaks  but as to gun training in the beginning always associate the gun shots with fun times and birds after awhile mother nature will take over... but always fun stuff...

here are my two micro squirrel terrorists they hate em and rabbits and anything they can catch but you have to love a dog that gaurds your nuts!

And my last Brittany he is 15 here over 800 chuckars in his day and rattlesnake bit twice he had more heart than any dog I ever owned ....R.I.P buddy you were a good one....

[mrmackc]

I love people that keep and love "Man's Best Friends!"

Police Dawg! she turns Nine this month.

 

 

Edited February 20, 2018 by mrmackc

[sketch]

On 2/19/2018 at 7:15 PM, shepp said:

One thing I learned from my friend when scolding don’t clap, something I’ve always done (never had a bird dog) I yelled at his pup and clapped this summer and he’s like yea that’s a no no that clap can be associated with a gun shot 

training will decipher this to the gun.. but for a young pup in training make it a return call or some reward then the gun call will have a diference. if my dogs go nuts at a bday party i wouldnt want that for my kids.. 

[sketch]

i have a friend ish with 3 4k $ bird dogs and they sit in kennels. sad but true. they are more for show than mans friend. but they might be retired now. he's into horses. ? not my thing. i trained my big dog to act like a family member

( before i had rifles) so i give advice loosly. hunted with a dog 3 or 4 times not mine. 

[Malig8r]

When I work with pups as young as 8 weeks I take them out into a field or wooded area. I have the pup off lead and they are usually very excited and curious at this point. I use a shotgun primer starter pistol and every so often I set it off.

When the pup is startled and stops to look around after hearing the shot, I turn to them and give lots of praise accompanied by a treat. Cut up hot dogs work GREAT. Cheap and easy to carry in a ziplock baggie.

It takes almost no time at all to get them to associate the shot sound with a positive experience. I can’t guarentee it will work with every dog, some dogs are just nervy, however I can say that all 3 of my dogs never had any issues with gunshots, fireworks, or thunder.

[unforgiven]

I like that I will try that on the next one, thanks brother.