Gundog Training Forum

Just as a last question if I kept her for beating and got a lab from good parentidge am I asking for trouble with regard to her imparting the vocals?? She's quiet the vast majority of the time in normal life, thanks

Yes it's got worse rascal, my aim was to try and ignore it but it's just spoilt my shooting, going over allot of ideas in my head about what to do, I feel like I'm supposed to have a gun dog, I love the training and the bond with the dog as a extension of myself when out training, we will see, thank...

She's 19 months, she's been doing it since she was very young, when I first took her for a training session with a pro trainer she did it then and I was told that was a fault of hers but as I only want her for pigeon shooting if I could cope with it it didn't matter as I was not doing field trails, ...

Thanks wullie, that might be what I will do at this rate. My girlfriend googled this up, is it worth trying? The Quiet Drill This was shared with me from a Mike Lardy seminar and I adapted it while trying to "cure" a habitual whiner. This is a shaping drill that gives you a tool to gradual...

Thanks both, this is my first gun dog, I have a option of rehoming and starting again, I enjoy the training allot and she's a dream to train out with the dummy's, but if I can't use her for what I want I loose the training and the shooting with her for a small prize of beating, what if I have anothe...

Lucy, thanks for your reply, good to hear that you manage to cope ok, I think if the beating season wasn't so far away that I might be happier that I had something to concentrate on, I'll give it lots of thought and consider getting another dog in the future perhaps as for now I'll be fetching them ...

She hardly does it apart from when excited for shooting, and yes I'd say she hits a bulls eye with the nerve hitting, I brought her for my shooting and I'm gutted that I don't think I can take her anymore, not sure if I shod find a good home for her and start again with a lab or something, I don't w...

Just curious if any of you have had a whiner and what you did about it, I got my dog (Sprocker) predominantly for pigeon shooting and she's spoiling it with her hollering, I've read a lot of stuff about it and don't think I'll be able to stop it but unsure what to do with her, she's a good beating d...

Hi Helene, no she's not on a lead, I just sit her and she waits there whining! Ha, I didn't have her in a hide though it's good to know that could make it even worse, we were just by the side of the field waiting, she's fine when walking about. That's good to hear Jeff that she was you best ever dog...

No worries, she has been a bit whiney from day one, I never knowingly encouraged it and think she probably would have been like this even if I had given it another 6 months or so, she's only for rough shooting with me and is very keen to please so I'll keep positive and focus on the things she's goo...