Thread: First hunting dog

Originally Posted by phillipgr

Good to read of the confidence you have in your dogs. What about a different question then. Lets say the dog is good and it's the trainer's fault, he/she has given it so many bad habits and made a mess of it. Would you consider putting down a good dog that has be "ruined" by a bad trainer? In other terms, is there a point of no return, for an otherwise good dog, where it is either not possible or not practical to make right the mistakes of the trainer? I can't really see this happening with anyone who is a serious hunter and wants the best for their dog, and you might say you would never give a dog to someone who won't at least be an okay handler, but just hypothetically speaking, that is all.

I have seen a couple of complete idiots stuff dogs up, but it is not the norm , most people will have some issues but nothing that bad you would hope, the idiots do learn from this and the second or third may be better.

Issues can be sorted, plenty of help out there, another thing to consider is with the backyard special you will probably get very little after sales advice, with an established kennel you will get that and they know there dogs well too

Another thing, you can buy a trained dog and hunt straight off, you can buy a pup and train yourself, or you could buy a pup then spend the coin and have someone train it for you...
or get a started dog and finish it
You will get the most satisfaction from starting and training your own pup, but there are other options to how you get there