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When I was in HS a kid I know shot and killed his best friends dog trying to shoot a running rabbit while they were pheasant hunting.

That requires training, something you don’t believe in.

none of that response makes any sense 🤷‍♂️

Since when is crate training the same as not liking dogs

You I’ve never heard of a dog that couldn’t be crate trained. I’ve seen dogs that had bad anxiety and would bust up cheap plastic crates, but there are methods around that. If your gonna tell me that 3 out of 4 of your dogs were not able to be crate trained if you were doing it properly then I...

We actually start crate training our puppies at 3 - 4 weeks old. We start out with a small crate without a door on it in the puppy area with a couple soft blankets and some toys in it. Eventually as they are weaning from momma we take out the whelping pen and they start sleeping in the crate. By...

Sounds to me like your dogs TRAINED YOU not to put them in a crate. Dogs are much smarter than people give them credit. Your dogs go into a crate when going hunting because if they do they get to hunt, the reward… at home they learned if they put up a fuss they can come out right away now they...

That somewhat sounds like some training, I thought good labs don’t need training….

No you train them for basic obedience, sit, heel, for duck hunting scenarios release by name. A steady, quiet, behaved gun dog does not come from training it to not care about shots. I want a dog that gets excited and looks for its mark at the sound of a gun, but also is obedient enough to know...

In my opinion that’s where basic training comes in, and once a dog gets some experience they should be good enough to decipher between shots from the group they are in and shots at a distance.

So many people blame the dog when it fails at something for whatever reason, maybe it broke in the duck blind, or refused to pick up the dead bird, maybe it ran off at the sound of gunfire. Failure is almost never the dogs fault, it’s almost always the handler or trainer didn’t properly prepare...

Good words of wisdom right there. So many people think all they need to do is condition the pup to loud noises. Success is truly more about the positive associations.

A 12 and a 20 are actually very close to the same decibel level and most of the time the 20 is actually higher decibels. FYI

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I had one that didn’t 🤷‍♂️

You can fix a lot of things but it’s real hard to fix stupidity 😂

There’s so many ways to do this is so many opinions on it from gooses shoot and pray 🙏 to very long drawn out interactions with cap Guns. I can tell you I cringe with the shoot and pray method, ruins a lot of dogs. Gun shyness is 100 % man made. Unfortunately some of us still have a cave man way...

I 100% agree with you the avg hunter does best with Hunt test lines rather than FT. Most FT breedings are too much dog for the avg handler/hunter. There is a lot of research going into the genetics right now and they have found links to markers for ligament tests being genetic just like hips...

I had a lab that hunted 30 days a year for 7 years. Purebred, came from British stock. Plenty of opportunities to find birds. He looked for deer scat and rabbit poo instead while the other dogs flushed birds. I fell for this gimmick breeder who bred show stock with field stock to try and get the...

No you’re right you didn’t mention blocky, it’s just the assumption that comes to my head with raider lines and big dogs. Dakota was a big dog also. Also I didn’t mention little when I said lean and athletic.There’s also a pre conception that dogs have to be big strong males to be great hunting...