Dog Training with Friends
One of the most important things when learning to train a gun dog is to find a friend or group of friends you can train with. Since I am new to dog training I welcome any chance to learn from someone with more experience than myself. Today we went into the foothills with my friend Chris who has two very well-behaved yellow labs named Ally and Zeek. It was good for Jake to interact with them and watch how they behaved. Instead of being his normal crazy self he anctually calmed down and stayed close to the ATV's.
Jake was glad to have an outing where he could just get out and run. We let the dogs run as soon as we got outside of town and boy did they run. We were on four wheelers and pushed them pretty hard to keep them working. I did get nervous when we jumped 50-60 mule deer that were just headed to water. Luckily, the dogs didn't give chase and they just stayed close by. Poor Abby was left home because she still has a week left in lock-down until her heat cycle has passed. We had two labs, three shorthairs and a french brittany on this outing.