I have a very unique situation that I have not had in a long time. I have acquired a nice female shorthair that is just under a year old and has never been on a pigeon or pen-raised bird. She was raised in North Dakota and spent the whole year this last year on wild birds. She went through the sharptail season and about half of the pheasant before she came to me. Usually the predicament is just the opposite. My dilemma now is that the wild bird population where I live is not what it is in North Dakota and I am just throwing this out there as a question. Should I introduce her to pigeons/pen-raised birds to further her training and ultimately get her broke or should I continue to put her on wild birds only and try to break her going that direction? I think the process of breaking her on wild birds is going to stretch out longer because I will be limited on how many bird contacts we will be able to make between now and next Fall but I don't want to screw up a good thing either by going to pigeons or pen-raised. I understand fully the ramifications if she is allowed to catch birds so if she is exposed to pigeons or pen-raised birds it would be using launchers and/or a checkcord or both to avoid any train wrecks in that area. I have just become so used to starting pups on pigeons and pen-raised birds and then transitioning to wild birds for the last several years that this is surpisingly new at this point because I don't think I have had the luxury of having a dog that didn't know what a pen-raised bird is since I was a kid and that's been a long time ago? Any thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.
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