Spring and Hunting Dogs

[BMaxus]

I don't know about your dogs, but mine is all amped up. All he wants to do is search for game. It's like the switch was turned on and I love it.

Any similar experiences out there?

[Kyhl]

Or as we like to call it, bunny season.

This time of year our dogs want to get outside between 2am and 4am because of the critter nightlife. Hasn't been bad yet but I expect excitement around the next full moon.

[BMaxus]

Yep, my wife has been complaining about the pooch waking her up. I work nights so he doesn't bother me.

[Da Biggin]

With the birth of the spring season and my dog's inability to focus on anything that didn't have feathers I found my self putting up the money for a trip to the game farm. I invited a good friend of mine and my pastor and we had a blast!

My dog performed above my expectation! He started doing things we never trained on and seemed to have perfected the things that we had. He really shined that day. This was the sentiment until the daily trips to the dog park for some exercise turned into miny hunting trips. My fooled hearted attempt to get the "spring jitters" out of him seemed to do nothing more than solidify his desire to hunt. This is by no means a complaints as his birdiness is a great relief as I was concerned if he would ever hunt being a rescue and all. In that regard I'm extactic. On the other hand, I can see the frustration mounting when he points a bird, I mindlessly bump the bird or it flies off, and I don't shoot the bird.

The fall can't come fast enough... FOR MY SAKE. I think he plots against me in my sleep for not downing the birds he feels he works so hard for.

[Todd Caswell]

[The fall can't come fast enough... FOR MY SAKE. I think he plots against me in my sleep for not downing the birds he feels he works so hard for.

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I don't know if you pointer folks have the opportunity's that we retriever folks have, with trials and HT, but if you do , do yourself and your dogs a favor and join a club, run some trials or tests and make it a year round thing. I love to hunt my dogs but I would much rather be training and trialing them year round...

[rundrave]

I don't know if you pointer folks have the opportunity's that we retriever folks have, with trials and HT, but if you do , do yourself and your dogs a favor and join a club, run some trials or tests and make it a year round thing.

there are AKC hunt tests, and trials, as well has NAVHDA events, local chapters test schedules can be found on the AKC and NAVHDA websites.

[TylerS]

I'm running Remy through his NAVHDA Natural Ability test June 11. Can't wait! Already did a couple practice runs and he did much, much better than I ever could have hoped. With an entire summer of training to do, I honestly can't wait to see what he's like come fall!