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<blockquote data-quote="jrthomasjr" data-source="post: 1881176" data-attributes="member: 74052"><p>Not quite on the topic, but my first bird dog was a golden as well. Best hunting partner I've ever had; I could count on one hand the number of birds lost with her over 10 years.</p><p></p><p>As for training, I'm not sure who trained whom, but I used a book, "<u>Training Your Retriever</u>", by James Lamb Free, said to be the best resource at the time. Everything worked well except the stuff meant to remove the gun-shy aspects. Not sure if it was my attempt at applying them or just the dog.</p><p></p><p>I finally took her on a dove hunt on my in-law's property, and the birds failed to show up, proving yet again you just can't trust a dove to do what they're supposed to do. On the way back through the peach orchard, a covey of quail broke in front of us. One flew back over me and I put it down. It was like a switch was thrown in her head. She retrieved that one to hand, worked up 6 more (pointing, which we had not worked on), all of them bagged, and was a gun dog for the rest of her life. When a gun came out, she got excited!</p><p></p><p>I later worked with two different trainers in the central TX area, both very highly regarded in TX, one internationally. I can't recall who said what, but some comments have stuck with me:</p><p></p><p>"Birds cure all problems"</p><p>"There are no bad dogs, only bad owners"</p><p>"We're often training the owners more than the dogs"</p><p></p><p>In summary, had I been working with my golden using live birds when trying to break the gun-shy problem, chances of success would have been close to 100%.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jrthomasjr, post: 1881176, member: 74052"] Not quite on the topic, but my first bird dog was a golden as well. Best hunting partner I've ever had; I could count on one hand the number of birds lost with her over 10 years. As for training, I'm not sure who trained whom, but I used a book, "[U]Training Your Retriever[/U]", by James Lamb Free, said to be the best resource at the time. Everything worked well except the stuff meant to remove the gun-shy aspects. Not sure if it was my attempt at applying them or just the dog. I finally took her on a dove hunt on my in-law's property, and the birds failed to show up, proving yet again you just can't trust a dove to do what they're supposed to do. On the way back through the peach orchard, a covey of quail broke in front of us. One flew back over me and I put it down. It was like a switch was thrown in her head. She retrieved that one to hand, worked up 6 more (pointing, which we had not worked on), all of them bagged, and was a gun dog for the rest of her life. When a gun came out, she got excited! I later worked with two different trainers in the central TX area, both very highly regarded in TX, one internationally. I can't recall who said what, but some comments have stuck with me: "Birds cure all problems" "There are no bad dogs, only bad owners" "We're often training the owners more than the dogs" In summary, had I been working with my golden using live birds when trying to break the gun-shy problem, chances of success would have been close to 100%. [/QUOTE]
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