In areas where you cannot be certain there are no distractions of this nature, have your young dog wear a training lead so that you can prevent him amusing himself without you if the unexpected occurs Teach your dog a solid recall command You cannot train a dog under these conditions. Keep away from high risk areas where there are lots of other dogs around or rabbits to chase. Your objective should be for the dog to be following you, and not the other way around. This forces the dog to keep an eye on you. The more independent the dog, the more you will need to keep changing direction. It makes you very predictable, and the dog may begin to feel confident in venturing further and further afield in the knowledge that you will be plodding along in the same direction when he returns. When you take a young dog out for exercise, try to resist the temptation to walk in a straight line. Like so many problems, prevention is simpler than cure.
#Chasing cars song about dogs how to
People experience endless problems with pet gundogs chasing things, simply because they haven’t taught them what else to do, or because they allow them to be exposed to powerful temptations before they have trained the dog how to cope.
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Teach your dog to follow you, not the other way around Your whistle or desperate pleas for the dog to return have absolutely no chance whatsoever of being obeyed. Sooner or later something will move – a leaf, a bird, a rabbit and the dog, already in ‘prey drive’ and ‘high’ on adrenaline will give chase. After all, the owner hasn’t asked him to do anything else, so hunting seems like the best plan. Once the puppyish phase of a strong dependency on the owner is past, typically at 6-9 months of age, the young gundog with his inbuilt hunting instinct, when taken for a walk, will hunt. Commonly this is referred to as a ‘walk’. The pet gundog is often exposed to a situation in which he has no absolutely no idea what he is supposed to be doing. The dog knows what his mission is, and understands that he must stick to the job in hand and not change the rules in any way. A working gundog is always on a ‘mission’ whether that mission is a retrieve or to hunt. This might be to complete his retrieve, or to walk to heel if he is a retriever, or to sit to flushing game if he is a spaniel. Rather we teach him what he should do in the presence of game. Strictly speaking, we don’t teach a dog ‘not to chase game’. A different perspectiveĮffective gundog training is a process of teaching the dog ’what to do’ in any given situation, rather than teaching him ’what not to do’. However, he approaches training his dog from a very different perspective that that of the average pet dog owner. To the competent gundog trainer this is not a problem in fact it is just what he is looking for.
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That is to say they are born with a powerful instinct to search for, flush and chase anything that moves. Working bred Springer spaniels (and cockers too) are ‘hard-wired’ to hunt. Well, part of the solution is understanding what is causing the problem. Why do many spaniels and quite a few retrievers cause their owners such problems and what is the answer? The owner is often quite desperate and wants to know how to stop this behaviour and to get the dog to come when he is called. All their efforts to get the dog to obey the recall commands they thought he understood, fly out of the window.
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They are unable to prevent their lovely young dog chasing rabbits, butterflies, birds, leaves, even sheep. Is your dog obedient until a rabbit runs past? Does he ‘bolt off’ after birds or even butterflies? Chasing behviours are often a problem in young gundogs, particularly in spaniel breeds, and most especially in springers.ĭespite a promising initial start, many gundog owners have all but lost control of their dogs by nine months or so.