In my opinion you really messed up. THe first time that you shoot the dog needs to be chasing and the rabbit needs to be way in front of the dog. If you shoot too close to a young dog- you will ruin it. One bad decision could be the end of its hunting days. You cant break a gun shy dog. I have seen people tie a dog to a tree and shoot rounds and rounds of shot off- and it never cured the problem. Be careful. THe first rabbit killed with my dogs is by me only and i am the only one hunting with it. I had a freind really screw up a pup i had.