I have a problem with a dog I have. First a little history . I bought Zoe when she was 5 weeks old from a breeder in
Colorado, she is a German short hair. For the first year we have been working on the basic obedience commands sit, stay , here, come and heal.
She has learned all of these things quickly and easily. I have taken her out in the field twice she never pointed any birds but ran through coveys both
times and didn't know what to do. As summer went by I worked with her in the back yard with a wing on the end of a line and she will point the wing
and hold that point. Here is my problem. I started using live birds hidden in the grass and as we walk through the field she will catch wind of the bird
and briefly pause but continue on like she trying to avoid the bird,she does know that the bird is there but wants nothing to do with it. But here is the strange part
I threw a crippled bird on the ground to see if she would at least retrieve the bird . She immediately chased after the bird and proceeded to eat it. ( she has never eaten one or ever tried to catch one in the back yard.)
So here my question what can I do to get her to point birds in the grass and how do I keep her from eating any of the shot birds?
Confused