Thread: Teaching a whineing dog to shhh

Im no expert, but hold off on lighting her up with the collar for a sec. I'm not sure if I would persevere with a dog that gave tongue on sight to birds, and I'm probably wasting my breath on a guy who belts up his dog and wants to torch her with a collar out of frustration but here goes:

I think in your shoes I would go back a step or two, going back to sit/stay in your yard at home. Sit/drop/stop means that until I tell you to move on, I would be working on that daily, sitting her for increasing periods of time, gradually moving it to places of higher distraction ie, in the places you would hunt. She has to understand that sit means that regardless of where that happens, and she needs to learn to trust you in that you will always come back. Basically things you should have had her doing before you took her out hunting.