Petroc is now getting on for 9 months and shaping up well. Whilst there remains lots and lots of training and further work to do, am quietly confident that he's going to cut the mustard for what I wanted from my third dog: no field trial champion, but hopefully a useful sort that can come rough shooting with me and maybe do some picking up at small local shoots. I increasingly find training him utterly compulsive and the more we do the more I want to do with him.
If he were going to be another pet dog like Moo or Pip, I would have no doubt that he would be destined for the snip in several months, but am wondering if that's the right thing for a working dog - hence posting the question in this part of the forum.
Grateful for your thoughts, in particularly whether neutering could have any adverse impact upon on his drive and working development?
Thanks,
Michael
If he were going to be another pet dog like Moo or Pip, I would have no doubt that he would be destined for the snip in several months, but am wondering if that's the right thing for a working dog - hence posting the question in this part of the forum.
Grateful for your thoughts, in particularly whether neutering could have any adverse impact upon on his drive and working development?
Thanks,
Michael