Neurological / physical issues or even a combination of that and poor knowledge or practices in the trainer , likely cover all Dog issues
Gun-shy cannot be sorted, Gun nervy can be Problem is how are you ever to be sure which you are dealing with ?
Coon hound/ Bloodhound
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Gun-shy cannot be sorted, Gun nervy can be Problem is how are you ever to be sure which you are dealing with ?
Having had a few dogs for all the hunting disciplines and been around several others sometimes a dog just is what it is. It's doesn't always have to be scientific.
Jon P
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Hope so - my latest GWP is on some sort of ADHD spectrum
Not sure of you point but it has to be recognised which you are dealing with . One of them cannot be cured as its physical , the dog will need a different task away from the gun
I'm not dealing with anything, it's not my dog that I was talking about. It's a mates Vizsla that I mentioned solely for example that you can get a gunshy dog. For conversations sake. It's gun shy, that's it. My own dog is good so were the two before her so no advice needed for me but cheers anyway. My point is now and again you get a dog that simply doesn't like the bang, sometimes you just can't make that dog accept the noise, I haven't had a problem sofar with mine. Dog's were around thousands of years before humans started exploding gunpowder overtop of them it's just the odd one doesnt like it no matter what ya do.
just upsets me to see a pup way too young to have shots fired over it. There is lots we can do about it 1. age , there is a membrane that needs to harden up within a puppies ear before you start .
2. start with very light blanks from a longer distance , work nearer day by day , week by week etc
3.solid lines of working gundogs that see real work with guns
My father kept hounds firstly Basset, later Blood. The Basset's were great fun on rabbit but more so on hares, absolutely no recall whatsoever, once you'd loosed them and they found a line. You had to try and keep up and they were surprisingly fast. Straight across roads and train lines no stopping them. The Blood hounds were different, much bigger and faster over the ground, ours would hunt game but only if there wasn't human scent. Again once loosed you just had to try to keep up. Less recall than a Basset and that really is saying something. There's no way I'd have a Blood hound for deer work, much better dogs out there.
Surely long leash would be good though ? Heck a good proportion of teckel and other keen trackers etc are only good to keep in touch with while you have the other end of the leash ? must say my old lab ( now passed) was a great deer tracker with the tracking leash on and yet he would stop and wait if he felt me and a tightening leash. Off the long leash it was all about getting onto it as fast as possible not a care in the world then if i kept up or not
To be fair he was a master of the peg on ground game or the odd pheasant but reasonably steady on those in flight . He used to duck down and keep stock still as the geese where coming in
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