Well, my three year old resuce GWP gets in tomorrow with a bird intro starting on sunday. Here is kind of my plan for her. She is a three year old who was taken to a hunt test and showed interest in birds and was not effected by gunfire. My intentions are as slow or as fast as she wishes to run. She went up for adoption because the person who had her let her prey drive go unchecked and she killed his cats and brought them to him. I'm trying to get a gauge of where she is at and what needs to be trained
Step one: Intro to brids like a pup. Clip the wings and let her get excited about birds. Based on her action at the hunt test, she already has this down.
Step two: Plant some birds and watch how she works it. I'm not big on pointing birds as much as working in gun range.
Step three is to introduce her to a 22lr when a bird is released and follow the progression of firearms and distance. Her foster family said she has been introducced and has no issues other than when she smells birds she goes a little crazy.
Now I understand there may be other issues, and I may need to end up just spending the weekend letting her chase birds. I'm all good with that as well. I'm camping with the boys (wife deployed) and will be just as happy
with some cold beers and a fire and spending time with her.
Anything else I should consider?
Step one: Intro to brids like a pup. Clip the wings and let her get excited about birds. Based on her action at the hunt test, she already has this down.
Step two: Plant some birds and watch how she works it. I'm not big on pointing birds as much as working in gun range.
Step three is to introduce her to a 22lr when a bird is released and follow the progression of firearms and distance. Her foster family said she has been introducced and has no issues other than when she smells birds she goes a little crazy.
Now I understand there may be other issues, and I may need to end up just spending the weekend letting her chase birds. I'm all good with that as well. I'm camping with the boys (wife deployed) and will be just as happy
with some cold beers and a fire and spending time with her.
Anything else I should consider?