Golden Retriever For Upland Training Tips Request.
Hi All,
I stumbled into owning a retriever a few weeks ago. He’s a year old with no bird dog training, he knows the basic commands and is a great fetcher when it comes to sticks and balls. I’ve got some chickens on the property but he mostly shied away from them until today as the previous owner said she gave him a thrashing when he killed one of hers as a pup. This afternoon he plucked one of mine and it gave me some hope. I have no experience training a bird dog despite hunting over them for quite a few years, and am doing my research. I’m curious where guys would start with on a dog like this, at this age. I’ve got some acreage and am surrounded by BLM with a sparse population of Huns and sage grouse, so I do have that resource for field training. My main question is, how do I get this dog obsessed with birds when he’s been trained out of it?