I would like to point out not all gun dogs will make the grade..As i have has some very bad new as to are gemma today....
I have not long come back from Gun dog training with are Gemma....And the trainers point of view with are Gemmas training this morning is she will NOT make a gundog..
So i have now pulled her out...
She has not got what it takes..She has no drive in her....The trainer this morning use every thing possible this morning to get any sort of drive out of her (its just play play play with her...he said in all honestly she will not work and you will be wasting your money and my time.....
So i have now some very over scented dummies for sell....We use a whole bottle on one of the dummies to get Gemma to retrieve....
This is why i am Quoting..Praia part of her post and in brackets is almost to the word as to Praia is saying that my trainer as said to day....She will make a good show dog and pet nothing else...Also my trainer said a lot as to What praia has also sain in her post....regarding Gemmas behavior and attitude...
Quote.I'm not averse to using clicker training or rewarding a dog with food if the dog isn't a natural retriever. I've never used food in training for retrieves, because both of my spaniels are natural retrievers with great drive. I suppose if a dog is ((lacking natural drive)), one has to find what works for that particular dog. If I had to train a dog that wasn't keen on retrieving I would back chain using a clicker and food, though personally, I'd rather not spend all that time training a dog to do something that it doesn't naturally enjoy doing. Perhaps the reason why most gun dog trainers don't use food in their training is because the dogs they train have so much drive that the retrieve is reward enough in itself? At least for me, this was the case for my own spaniels. I also use flirt poles to build prey drive and play tug with both spaniels, but that's beside the point