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Introducing your Gundog puppy to gun shots
You Need To Be Careful Not To Scare Your Gundog Puppy When Introducing Gun Shots
This is very important and you should read and reread the following excerpt from the manuel ‘Fancy Training For Your Gundog’ this is a very old and valuable book written over 150 years ago, and guess what, dogs still need to be introduced to the same gun shots now as they did then. And this way seems to work best.
While our gundog puppy is yet young he should be taught to love the sound of the gun. This can be easily accomplished if the proper course is pursued. In the first place we take a couple of old tinpans, and while his attention is attracted by something that interests him we strike them together, lightly at first, and if he appears to be afraid we are very careful not to add to his fright by a repetition of the noise anywhere near him, but take the pans to quite a distance from his pen and leave them, and wait a while before trying again.
When it is time to feed him we go to the pans, and while sounding our whist he, as before described, to let him know that we are coming, we give a stroke just loud enough for him to hear plainly, and at once proceed to his pen and give him his feed.
By pursuing this course for a few days, and gradually going a little closer every time, he will become accustomed to the sound, and learning that the noise is connected with our coming, and also his dinner, he soon gets used to it, and in a short time will stand the racket without flinching.
When he has become so accustomed to the noise that he shows no signs of fear at quite a loud crash it is time to try him with the gun. In order to do this understand you will require an assistant. Let him take the gun loaded with a cartridge and stand at some little distance say forty or fifty yards away and be ready at your signal to fire.
You will now enter his kennel, and after he gets a little quiet call him to you and put a piece of meat before him and bid him To ho, at the same time raising your hand as a signal for the gun. Carefully watch him, and should he display any sign of fear the experiment must be repeated as with the pans. There is no need of your presence only to notice how he behaves, and you can dispense with your assistant, unless, as will probably be the case, he does not mind the report, when the gun can be brought nearer, and you can make another trial.
Take great care must be taken not to frighten him with too loud a discharge, nor should it be too close to him, until he gets used to it. By paying close attention to him when under fire, you can readily tell how far it will do to go, and by properly conducting your experiment you can soon teach him to love thesound of the gun, even when fired over his head, indeed we have cured in this way some of the worst cases of gun-shyness that we ever saw.
Comparatively few dogs are gun-shy, and it is with these only that those precautions are necessary. After your pup has been carefully accustomed to the noise do not lay the gun aside as soon as you have accomplished your object, but let him hear the sound occasionally until his education is complete, taking good care that the discharge of the gun is at once followed by something pleasing to him his dinner, for instance or let it be a prelude to giving him his liberty, thus giving him to understand that the noise means something, and soon the noise, or even the sight of the gun, will cause him pleasurable emotions that he will never forget.
This manuel provided me with the groundwork which I trained Charlie from, I also recommend everyone with a gundog or who is thinking of getting a gundog to try these manuels out, they are available to download immediately if you want and have a 8 week guarantee where you get to keep the manuels and get your money back if you don’t agree they are invaluable.
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