Dean, I have been getting him accustomed to noises and they usually visit once or twice a week, I usually make a loud sharp clap of my hands occasionally and he seems fine with it. With my two late German pointers , I introduced gunfire with a starter pistol in conjunction with them retrieving a dummy while they ran in the field and they’d associate the shot to the retrieve. Not sure how I’ll do it with Pippin as he’s not much of a retriever at this point, we’ll see how it goes as we take a few trips to the fields. I always fired the first shots behind my back at a distance as my dogs ran out for the retrieve. I can tell that Pippin is different than my late German dogs, so we’ll be going slow.
Take Care,
Tim.
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