RE: Puppy is busting birds...
Hey Mite,
Thanks for the response. So you would say checkcord and not ecollar at this point? I have an ecollar, just haven't used it on him yet.
As far as the hard mouth goes, I always thought it was a desireable characteristic of the German versatiles that they actually kill the animal prior to bringing it back. Doesn't the VDD do a test for their dogs where it needs to kill either a cat or a rabbit? I didn't mean to bring this up as something I want to correct. As you say, I'm happy that he brings the bird back in one piece and will give it to me without a huge fight. This was not the case two weeks ago, but he's gotten a lot better with it.
He's not damaging the meat. He grabbed it by the neck, shook it (killing it) and brought it back. He did the exact same thing with a black duck last weekend.
Cheers,
Dan