Thread: Gun shy

Originally Posted by Pointer

That maybe true, but with your experience you would be able to see something Jord may not have. By reading the dogs reaction to loud noises, you would back off a step before you created a problem.

Jord I'll leave it at this before it turns into a shitfight, but my only advice would be this. As with all dog problems you start at the issue and work backwards. (not the human approach and go straight to the source). You need to address the issue of the dog being aversive to the sight of the gun before you even think of any conditioning to sound, not the other way around, as if you do all the conditioning to sound then whip the gun out, you will be back to square one. Start bringing the gun out at feeding etc, hell even stick one in his kennel and run. Then increase this to walks with the gun, or any gun shaped object. Then when he comfortable with that, only then go on to sound conditioning. Don't put a timeline on this too by the way, this could be a 3-6 month project if you are lucky. All the best.

Cheers pointer. I've trained dogs before just not hunting/gun dogs so is a learning curve. Appreciate advice and I definitely am in no rush - just dipping into the pool of information on here. Cheers.


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