Starting To Train
February 15th, 2001
So I picked up Richard Wolter’s GUN DOG book. Its pretty much supposed to be the defacto standard in training gun dogs.
Until she goes to the trainer this summer, I’m going to focus on “come” and”whoa”. I’ve had a grouse tail my Uncle Roger gave me and she’s pointed that consistently.
As far as Ruby’s training, we withdrew her from the obedience trainer here as she (the trainer) was a little over the top. She wanted us to use a pinch collar on her, only pet her when she sat (which we told her we weren’t teaching her) and was generally too strict in her approach. Ruby seems far too bright to need such a strict type of training.