I' m sorry to say there is only one point of view here. Quote from Duffy Book " EXPERT ADVICE ON GUN DOG TRANING." " You and your dog are a team, Like a baseball team. The more you work/train together the better team you become." In my book that means you have got to give the dog 4 times a week, more if possible, about 45 minutes to 1 hour of serious working. It does not all have to be training just going out a running the dog and giving a few obedience commands it fine. He/she has to have some play time afield where it does what it likes to do, namely run and hunt.

If your going to go in with how little do I have to do to keep it happy. Forget it son your not ready. I can see why Mom is baulking, I would be too. Bob