Unsteady Gsp Pup.

[mark williams 7,549]

Retrieving to hand every time and finds literally everything shot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

atb

[Flairball 141]

Sitting calmly, and stopping on a whistle are nice, but you want your dog to point game honestly, right? you want a dog that is staunch on point, right? How does a dog learn that? It is ingrained in it. It just needs to learn the lesson that it's better to point than to flush. Nothing allows a dog to learn it is better to point than senselessly chasing some birds. That your dog has been able to retrieve game should make it easy for you to reward the dog when it does right, too. After the dog realizes that chasing isn't putting birds in its mouth it will try something different. That's when it'll start to point birds. That's when you can start reinforcing his point and building staunchness. Once a few birds are shot over his points, and he gets to retrieve them, which is the reward, it'll start growing from there. I've found its much easier to deal with a young pup chasing, and tiring out, than an older pup.

 

Of course it gets tricky again when you move on to making him steady to wing, shot, and fall.

 

But, there are a lot of ways to do it. Good luck.