Pointing Dog Training Timeline

Our hunting dog training grounds include our own 20 acres of real wild bird high desert habitat with quail and chukar available year round and pheasants upon request with thousands of unfenced wild acres surrounding our facility.

Pointing dog training timeline. Training your dog. We train all pointing and flushing dogs for upland bird hunting. For my dog the retrieving part is coming on very easy and without any training other than throwing a ball. However as i started to write.

Follow this puppy training timeline to get your dog off to a good start. Centrally located just 2 hours from downtown los angeles. You can probably guess what happened at the end of the first month they compared notes and my phone got busy. Age 5 to 7 months.

Bob and jody have trained pointing dogs for over 35 years and have written many articles for the pointing dog journal. But when you break down the process into its key goals and basic timeline any dog owner can become a training professional just. Being primarily a pointing dog. The german shepherd dog s work ethic is legendary and you can encourage your dog s best working traits with early and ongoing.

When sportdog asked me to write training articles on some of the aspects of training pointing dogs to handle birds it seemed like a pretty easy task. Along came three fellows who owned year old littermates. By ltc jim morehouse. Training pointing dogs with birds part 1.

From 3 to 9 months training goal 1. Puppies like human babies do a lot of learning to do in their early months. T he initial aspects of training a hunting dog can seem daunting. Bold pups can explore the field on a check cord learning the windshield wiper pattern you ll want them to employ in the field.

Obedience is the primary goal getting the dog to come when called and yield to a leash are the first orders of business. The handling is also going very well. For example a while back i developed a monthly progress check off report for dogs in training and the idea seemed to work until. Pointing dog pointers features monthly training tips by bob and jody iler who own green valley kennels in dubuque iowa.