I am curious to here anyone's stories about their bird dogs.
My dad is on his second English Springer Spaniel - Jake. A pretty good dog. He works kind of slow, but does great on birds sitting tight and wounded birds. He's kind of sensitve though. If you get mad at him he wont hunt for you.
After he has ranged too far my dad will put him on the lead for a few minutes. Once he gets off the lead he wont hunt for my dad for up to a half hour - he will come across and work with who ever is furthest from my dad.
On one occassion I knocked down a pheasant and he retrieved the wounded bird and started brigning it back. He got about half way to me and laid down. I called and called for him to come but he wouldn't budge. He finally got this f*** you expression on his face and let the bird go. The bird started walking away and I had to chase it down. These stories are funny now, but weren't then.
My dad is on his second English Springer Spaniel - Jake. A pretty good dog. He works kind of slow, but does great on birds sitting tight and wounded birds. He's kind of sensitve though. If you get mad at him he wont hunt for you.
After he has ranged too far my dad will put him on the lead for a few minutes. Once he gets off the lead he wont hunt for my dad for up to a half hour - he will come across and work with who ever is furthest from my dad.
On one occassion I knocked down a pheasant and he retrieved the wounded bird and started brigning it back. He got about half way to me and laid down. I called and called for him to come but he wouldn't budge. He finally got this f*** you expression on his face and let the bird go. The bird started walking away and I had to chase it down. These stories are funny now, but weren't then.