RE: Gun shy dog
Get two metal food bowls. Have some onehold your dog in front of you when it is feeding time. Put the food in one bowl so the dog can see. Then bang the bowls togather, not to loud at first. Call the dog and let him come to you as you hit the bowls togather and call it's name. Do this each time you feed him and increase the loudness of the banging each time. after a week or so put the food in the bowl and use two other pans that make more noise. This cac be done outside after a few weeks and a cap gun or startergun can be shot. The dog will get the hint that noise is a good thing and he gets FOOD.Then take him to the farthest point you can from a gun range and work closer to the noise, prase him and you might have to give him a treat.
I have done this with several dogs and it has worked every time.
Never shoot over a puppy!!!