Thread: What to breed to

Originally Posted by kawhia

a dog that has been handled too hard around birds can be taught to blink game.
but inexperience can also produced a missed game incident that could be wrongly termed blinked.

But he isnt being taught, though is he, it is more a response, yes? How do you mean handled too hard? I do not see that if your dog has good prey drive where is the need to be hard on him...if he locks on point and is steady, how could a handler jeopardise this?