Labman
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Got a new black lab puppy in May, born in March, so he's 8 months old now. I've worked on training him since day one. Not a single day has gone by where I haven't worked with him. He has excellent bloodlines, father being GHRCH and mother is HRCH. He's been doing great and I actually ran him in his first Hunt Test when he was 6 months old, in September. He won his first ribbon at 6 months in the Started. He's been hunting in SD 2 times already and last weekend went out to Western MN hunting. So, he's doing pretty well catching on to hunting birds. But, he's still learning and trying to make his 1st retrieves. I guess what I'm trying to get at is we're hunting with a guy that has some black poodle looking dog, golden doodle or something, and the guy brings back a bird that I had shot and my puppy goes to smell the bird and his dog attacked my puppy over the bird, not once, but twice that day. I was not a happy camper. The second time this happened, the dog got right above the eyeball on the eyelid and it was bleeding. It wasn't bad, and quit bleeding in about 3-4 minutes, but I knew how close it was to the dog getting my pups eyeball. I was keeping a close eye on him and both times it happened so fast that I couldn't stop it. After I yelled at the dog and pushed it off of or out of the way, My pup was scared, and acted like I yelled at him or he was in trouble. I made a point of taking the bird over to him but he still acted scared. A few minutes later, we were back to hunting but I sure hope these psycho dogs don't screw up my pup. Too much work has gone into this pup, and to put him into a bad situation like that, I feel bad I didn't do a better job protecting him or putting him in a better situation. On the other hand, this was the first time meeting this guy and his dog. Probably my last time hunting with them also. Sorry about the long winded post. After the dog bit my puppy and went psycho, and he took off to go hunting without saying anything, I yelled your dog bit my dogs eye, and he yells back, is he alright with his back turned to me as he walks away with psycho dog hunting. My dogs are family dogs first and hunting dogs second, so bringing them back in one piece is my top priority even though injuries do happen, but it shouldn't be from other dogs attacking.