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I didn't want to hijack the dummy thread but it started me thinking - how do you guys deal with starting your young dogs on cold game, but still keeping an interest in dummies?
Oak is 15 months, progressing nicely on dummies and I hope to continue training on dummies and running him in working tests for many years yet. But, also, I am considering maybe trialling him one day, and he will certainly join in the picking up team. I have started giving him cold game, in a seperate training session to the one on dummies, and, for the first time this weekend, at the end of a session on dummies. Is that how you would suggest doing it? I don't want to have him turning his nose up at a canvas dummy in the future becasue I have handled it wrong in the early introduction to game.
When I was in this situation with Fife, Oak's dad, I had no problem as he is 110% keen to retrieve anything I ask, game, dummies, smelly socks, shoes, you name it, he loves to retrieve it. Oak so far is showing the same keeness so I am not unduly worried, just interested.
Ash, on the other hand, didn't really like dummies, did a couple of seasons picking up, and now is dead keen on dummies! Totally opposite to what you would expect!
Thanks
Katy
Oak is 15 months, progressing nicely on dummies and I hope to continue training on dummies and running him in working tests for many years yet. But, also, I am considering maybe trialling him one day, and he will certainly join in the picking up team. I have started giving him cold game, in a seperate training session to the one on dummies, and, for the first time this weekend, at the end of a session on dummies. Is that how you would suggest doing it? I don't want to have him turning his nose up at a canvas dummy in the future becasue I have handled it wrong in the early introduction to game.
When I was in this situation with Fife, Oak's dad, I had no problem as he is 110% keen to retrieve anything I ask, game, dummies, smelly socks, shoes, you name it, he loves to retrieve it. Oak so far is showing the same keeness so I am not unduly worried, just interested.
Ash, on the other hand, didn't really like dummies, did a couple of seasons picking up, and now is dead keen on dummies! Totally opposite to what you would expect!
Thanks
Katy