North Country Boy 0 Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Have a great, well trained ESS bitch that is 6 years old. Just lately she has started to push on a bit, she will flush a bird then chase it even though its 40 yards in the air, i can normaly counteract this and stop it before it happens but on the last 2 shoots shes just gone beserk and chased everything shes flushed, shouting and whistling to her doesnt register and she seems hell bent on retrieving the flushed bird, even though shes no chance of ever getting near it, any tips on trying to combat it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Casso 1,261 Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Have a great, well trained ESS bitch that is 6 years old. Just lately she has started to push on a bit, she will flush a bird then chase it even though its 40 yards in the air, i can normaly counteract this and stop it before it happens but on the last 2 shoots shes just gone beserk and chased everything shes flushed, shouting and whistling to her doesnt register and she seems hell bent on retrieving the flushed bird, even though shes no chance of ever getting near it, any tips on trying to combat it? when was the last time she got to mouth and retrieve something,,she sounds very driven,,is she getting out regular,, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
North Country Boy 0 Posted January 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 She retrieves on every shoot i go on and every shoot i beat on, at least twice a week but has been up to 4 times a week during the season. Shes not short of experience or days out and it looks like she treats every shoot as her first shoot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jusar whippets 10 Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 She may have had too much work and is getting frustrated maybe? Take her back a couple of steps and get her in an enclosed space and send a few dummies out for her and reinforce the stop whistle. If she doesn't respond then as your in a controlled place you can get to her and reinforce the command and drill this into her. Some dogs are suited to beating and some are suited to picking up, it can be quite confusing for a dog not to be able to "run in" one day whilst picking up a runner and then stop to flush the next whilst beating etc... Good luck anyway Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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