essexfluke Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 Hi I have a 7 year old lab that I use for beating a shooting over the last year she has started to run in when on the peg and in the beating line and will not stop on the whistle. She dose not do this when in a duck hide only on pheasant days and is also OK in training. Is this a bad habit I have caused that cant be rectified or can I teach an old dog new tricks? Any ideas would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 keep training and re-drilling steadiness. you can teach an old dog new tricks, it has taught itself quick enough what to do when a pheasant falls out of the sky to the sound of gunshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 As above- is it competing with other dogs? This don't happen much when your out after duck alone that all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essexfluke Posted June 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 As above- is it competing with other dogs? This don't happen much when your out after duck alone that all Thanks for the advice I Thought it was a competition thing but she did it when I took her pigeon shooting in fact she was so bad I had to take her home as every time i raised my gun she bolted out waiting for the bird to fall out of the air. I am also training a 17 month old lab at the moment (one of her pups). I have been taking her along to watch and giving her lots of praise and encouragement for sitting there while he is retrieving will this help or just confuse both dogs?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 You need to get your dog used to not being sent for every retrieve. At this stage where running in is the problem I would be picking birds for yourself, not using the other dog; the potential for competition would IMO wind the older one up even more. You can start off doing it with dummies, then in the pigeon hide. In the heat of battle on a driven day it will be much more difficult to keep your peg dog steady and shoot as you cannot concentrate on both... this normally ends up with a missed bird because you have one eye on the dog and the dog doing a runner to the shot waiting for the aforementioned bird to fall because you only had one eye on the dog, not both! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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