Recent content by Buck55

Sounds like your Brittany will come around when he gets older and more confident. We got my friend's Brittany to retrieve her birds by introducing some threatened competition from an unfamiliar dog (who was willing but not allowed) to snatch her bird from underneath her. Maybe as your dog gets...

My first golden was so gun shy that a toy cap gun would cause him to stop whatever he was doing and slink away. I was unable to make any progress using desensitization techniques. He loved retrieving and finding and flushing quail as a pup. He progressed to pheasants- as long as no gun was...