ORIGINAL: Natalie
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today my nephews wanted to shoot skeet.. so my dogs follows us all happy.. and when they first cocked the shotgun, Gunner took off running, freaked out as all hell. so i got him to me and kneeled near him and held his colar. i even talked in his ear giving him praises, and when they fired he jumped and almost broke my arm trying to get away. i held him sitting near me again, telling him in his ear it was ok. well they shot and he jumped but stayed sitting, but u can tell he wanted to leave badly. we did they for a couple more shots and then he layed down and refused to get up unless id let him run away.
Why woud you keep shooting over a dog that that was obviously in distress over the sound of gunfire? Wouldn't it have been better to immedialtely remove him from that environment?
I sure ain't an expert on gunshyness, but I would have gotten my dog away from there ASAP and delt with it later in a morepeaceful setting. Would I have been doing the wrong thing?