Stumbling with the red dog

Todd Duncan Tennyson

Todd Duncan Tennyson

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Took the boy out for a stomp today, had to wear my river cleats because it was so slick out. We did a bunch of bumpers and he did pretty well, but he's starting to get a notion that it is a game of tug of war. and run away with it. I guess I'll have to not lean into his notions and be firm. He's only a year old. The main thing is that we got out for a stumble in the snow together.

Be good,

Todd
 
He'll hunt. We already walked behind the firing line at the gun range, and he is snoopy on anything that flits or flitters from the brambles. I think he'll probably outlast me. I am going to do my best to get him right with the show. He's a good dog, and I am going to work him as best as I can do, for me.
 
Remember to catch him doing something you want him to do and praise him instead of correcting from something you don't want him to do!

Advice from Robert Milner, one of the best ever.
 
Todd,
On training dogs I have no sage advice or words of wisdom. What I can tell you is that I became a water fowler largely because of my GWP, Berta. Our first year of pheasant hunting hunting together was a huge success except for the fact Berta was not so much of a retriever as she was a locator. The trick to getting your bird was looking for the plume of feathers rising from the CRP. My wife and I tried everything to encourage her to do the right thing. Training with dummies she was flawless in her retrieves but in the field only occasionally would she bring a bird back to hand; but not before it was well chewed. Then one day I got an idea. I reasoned that Berta could not maul a bird while she was swimming and that she had a choice: sit in the boat and do nothing, or make retrieves. The rest as they say is history, Richard. image000000(7).jpg
 
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