pigeons and young springer

Fetch There

anyone getting there eye in with the duck shooting aproaching on a bit

of pigeon shooting.

was out this morning & got 5.

was very happy as it was my springers first time out on her own without

the lab or older springer for back up and she was rock steady.

she marked and retrieved everything so i was pretty pleased.

cud of shot more but it was more her performace rather than my own i

interested it.

its nice to know that the early starts all summer with her wern't wasted.

kildare.17hmr

fair play:)

Dusty87

Thats great your dog is doing well. My dog for retrieving has gotten a hard mouth i fear. I think its from her throwin bottles etc for him. He chews them on the way back which he never did before on birds. Wil he remember not to chew game?

Fetch There

Dusty87 wrote: »

Thats great your dog is doing well. My dog for retrieving has gotten a hard mouth i fear. I think its from her throwin bottles etc for him. He chews them on the way back which he never did before on birds. Wil he remember not to chew game?

throw her the next time and if she's got teeth marks on her when the dog

retrieves her your :Din trouble.

virminhunter

Dusty87 wrote: »

Thats great your dog is doing well. My dog for retrieving has gotten a hard mouth i fear. I think its from her throwin bottles etc for him. He chews them on the way back which he never did before on birds. Wil he remember not to chew game?

start using a wire brush(or something along those lines) as a dummie when your training her dusty, it might stop her being hard mouthed...

jwshooter

take a few pictures , were not posting enough

Dusty87

jwshooter wrote: »

take a few pictures , were not posting enough

i dont get it. Of the dog or her. Or the dog wit her in his mouth?

SpringerF

Dusty87 wrote: »

Thats great your dog is doing well. My dog for retrieving has gotten a hard mouth i fear. I think its from her throwin bottles etc for him. He chews them on the way back which he never did before on birds. Wil he remember not to chew game?

While it is certainly possible to induce hard mouth in a springer it is more usually regarded as being inherited.

Try alternating between your usual dummy and something very very soft and floppy. A loosley packed sock etc.
Once picked up get her back to you as soon as you can, dont give her time to think of anything else but getting back to you with the dummy.


Please do not use a wire brush or barbed wire or indeed anything that causes a pain reaction to a misdeed

virminhunter

SpringerF wrote: »

While it is certainly possible to induce hard mouth in a springer it is more usually regarded as being inherited.

Try alternating between your usual dummy and something very very soft and floppy. A loosley packed sock etc.
Once picked up get her back to you as soon as you can, dont give her time to think of anything else but getting back to you with the dummy.


Please do not use a wire brush or barbed wire or indeed anything that causes a pain reaction to a misdeed

sorry springerf I saw the method on a dvd the fella on it was using a normal brush, I'll hold my hands up and say a wire brush was a bad example, but the method isnt ment to cause the dog pain, the idea is that the minute she gets the feel of the brush in her mouth she wont want to bite down, sorry again I should have thought more about it before I posted.

SpringerF

No problem

Dusty87

I was thinkin that as i read it about a dog in the for sale section. It seems to be only bottles and his frisbee he chews. Plastic things. The dummy or bust leather football seems ok. Il have to wait and see. He dosn stop and chew, more so chews it on the way back.

SpringerF

he is mouthing the retrieve so.

One solution is as above

It will become very important if you have hopes of trialling