Bird bag

You're out on a bird hunt. You take a shot and the dog does notrillioneact the right way. Gun Shyness. David Sparks Sportsman Spotlight. Kyle is a very good trainer of hunting dogs, and I had a question for him. When you say introduction to guns, explain that process. How do you introduce a dog to birds? You just take them out in the wild. What happens? No, you take them. Speaker2: Out with a bag full of pigeons is what I do. I want the dog associating that fun chase of a pigeon and that prey drive with a gunshot. If things have gone right, people have introduced noise when they're feeding their dogs. You know, if I can get a dog really chasing a pigeon, I can start firing a shot around. And then you carry a kill bird with you and you reward that dog with feathers in the mouth. Pretty soon the dog is associating all the good things of hunting with that shot. It just excites the dog, keeps it fired up, gets rid of almost any chance you have of gun shyness. It's just a good way to go about it. You know, I did it with Frank. Speaker1: Frank being the guy that trained Kyle, he. Speaker2: Taught me to read the dog for that kind of thing. And that's a big thing is when you do introduce a dog to gun and feather the whole excitement of the hunt. That's the one time in your life you want to spend the money on a trainer, find somebody, especially with Griffon, find somebody that has done it, knows what they're doing, really can read it and go ahead and pay for it that time. It'll save you so much grief later. Speaker1: By the way, when Kyle says bag full of pigeons, he's talking bird bag and the pigeons inside are live.