IT's never to late to teach a dog!

I get many older dogs, in for training, that have developed bad habits over the years. You want to honestly evaluate your dog, decide what you want and where you want to be by next hunting season, and make a game plan!

You dogs ability to take and uderstand direction and correction will dicatate the amount of time and course to take.

You can get this all done with out a E collar, just requires a little more time and dedication. There are some rather good deals on collars on E bay and some other BB's.

You can teach fetch while teaching everything else. You just have to take it in strides.

I would not take the dog no any more bird hunts until you have decided what you wany out of him. Sound slike to me you need to start off at square one again. The pen raised birds on gamr farms are easy for a dog to catch.

So.....in short....come up with a plan.....

Do you want your dog to be broke on birds?
Go with the shot?

Retrieve?

What are his faults right now?
Why is he making these mistakes? Most are man made....fixing some of his problems might require a different procedure out of you as well.

I'll help out as much as possible as well as others on this site would too, I'm sure!

Phil
REO