Message #252569

[Reuben]

When I was younger I trained to sit stay heel fetch etc. etc. Then one day I decided it was over kill. The answer was simple. Every day socializing doesn't look like training but it is training. We meet that minimum amount of training with an exceptional dog then you will have a great hunting dog in your hands.

We just set this dog up for greater success when this dog is in the woods...

This has been a great thread...when we exhaust it... is only right to start one on "WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO HANDLE A HUNTING DOG IN THE WOODS TO TAKE HIM TO A HIGHER LEVEL"... This is the other side to making a natural a great dog...

when both are combined now we have something to talk about...