Dave Richards
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Location: church hill tn
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I really wonder how many "natural" pups wind up in the wrong hands? I suspect it's way more than we will ever know. I NEVER trained a dog or had the desire to train one myself, but my long time hunting partner was one of the best trainers I ever seen. His method was repeating or getting the desired behavior over and over until it became automatic. This type of training is exactly what our special forces use in their training, repeating the desired behavior over and over. You have to get the desired outcome by using the proper training methods, but the training must be consistant. A young dog can not achieve top performance without the opportunity. You have to hunt them more than a night or two per week, rain, snow, whatever, you have to expose them or give them the opportunity to excel. Lots of dogs NEVER get these opportunities to develope their full potential, that's on the handler not the dog. Example in mind my buddy and another one of our hunting friends had littermate pups, the one my hunting partner had was given or worked all summer at a very young age, while the other friend had rarely hunted his pup as he thought it was to young. They decided to take both pups together one night and the pup my buddy had treed 3 coons that night, while the other pup just played around. The other hunter just could not believe what my buddies pup had done as he had no idea how much time my buddy had spent giving his pup the opportunity to excel. He honestly told my buddy that he could tree a coon with a cat, still unaware of the time he had spent
working that pup over and over or consistently to achieve this outcome.
Needless to say me and my buddy got a big laugh over this. Neutrals happen to have to have the opportunity to developer their natural ability and nothing beat repetitive action or training for the desired outcome. Dave
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