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Trained Adult Lab Stopped Retrieving Pheasant
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<blockquote data-quote="DUCKMAN11" data-source="post: 2653177" data-attributes="member: 122313"><p>First let me say this..... NOTHING and i mean absolutely nothing will train a bird dog faster than another bird dog that's already trained. </p><p></p><p>My hunting partner has a 5yo intact male yellow lab. The dog has good hunting bloodlines. He also had a very old female lab that the male grew up with. He didn't get much training in the year 1/puppy stage but would retrieve dead ducks. Year 2 comes around and the dog is doing better. Not good by any standard but better. Around the end of the 2nd season the older female dog died some time in the night in the same pen as the male dog. The male dog was alone with the female dogs dead body all night in an 8x10 pen. Ever since then his male dog won't retrieve dead birds AT ALL. We've tried force fetching. We've bought live pigeons and chickens just to see if he'd even chase them and nothing! I've never seen a "bird dog" not chase a live chicken when they go to clucking! He will fetch a tennis ball some but seems uninterested in any type of hunting or water activity. It's like the death of his kennelmate turned the Labrador switch off. He's been taken to the vet and is medically sound "I was worried about the dogs hips". After year 3 and part of year 4 of hunting very small ponds with.....</p><p></p><p>My dog who is younger but a hard charging psychopath....</p><p>And 2 of the GSP's one male and one female, both of which are DEVGRU level bird dogs.... nothing has changed. His dog is a sweet dog but is now a couch potato. </p><p></p><p>I don't have any advice other than to make retrieving fun again. I know you have trained and paid for your lab to learn how to point but that aint what they are made to do. I'd assume that the pointing and "holding" training has screwed up the dogs "get um" feature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DUCKMAN11, post: 2653177, member: 122313"] First let me say this..... NOTHING and i mean absolutely nothing will train a bird dog faster than another bird dog that's already trained. My hunting partner has a 5yo intact male yellow lab. The dog has good hunting bloodlines. He also had a very old female lab that the male grew up with. He didn't get much training in the year 1/puppy stage but would retrieve dead ducks. Year 2 comes around and the dog is doing better. Not good by any standard but better. Around the end of the 2nd season the older female dog died some time in the night in the same pen as the male dog. The male dog was alone with the female dogs dead body all night in an 8x10 pen. Ever since then his male dog won't retrieve dead birds AT ALL. We've tried force fetching. We've bought live pigeons and chickens just to see if he'd even chase them and nothing! I've never seen a "bird dog" not chase a live chicken when they go to clucking! He will fetch a tennis ball some but seems uninterested in any type of hunting or water activity. It's like the death of his kennelmate turned the Labrador switch off. He's been taken to the vet and is medically sound "I was worried about the dogs hips". After year 3 and part of year 4 of hunting very small ponds with..... My dog who is younger but a hard charging psychopath.... And 2 of the GSP's one male and one female, both of which are DEVGRU level bird dogs.... nothing has changed. His dog is a sweet dog but is now a couch potato. I don't have any advice other than to make retrieving fun again. I know you have trained and paid for your lab to learn how to point but that aint what they are made to do. I'd assume that the pointing and "holding" training has screwed up the dogs "get um" feature. [/QUOTE]
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