Gun Dog Forum

I hear everyone talking about sticking (which is a term I have heard a lot, or even freezing on a bird)....Though the term crunching is really what is happening with my dog. He will come back and you can hear him crunch the birds (not on everyone but he will for sure do it at trials). It's not a cla...

I do plan to keep on working on it with him. Many say he could be a FTCH as he has unbelievable drive and marking ability. I just find it funny that the 1st year when I ran him in JH he was fine, it wasn't until next year he started sticking on birds (I don't really like the term, as he actually cru...

No I was only hunting with one dog. There has only been one dog until recently and then are never out retrieving at the same time (unless one dog is honoring in training). We have worked with the people we train with all the time (we are part of their training group)...We do remote drops with him, h...

To anwser some questions. Yes he was force fetched by a pro, any of the training that I have done has been under there guidance. We regularly train with them year round. For him I don't really know if there is ever too much pressure. When we were working on honouring and he would break it would take...

I have a 3yr old yellow lab who is a very driven and talented dog. We had him trained by professionals and he was doing great. Anyways we entered him a few times into the junior hunt and he did great. Then hunting season began and so did his crunching of birds, it is easy to control him when we are ...