My mate Dougie, is a shooter and beater. He uses a Labrador, trained by himself. Today on the shoot he took along one of his pups, 14 weeks old to see how the pup would react. The pup was great on the day, and even ran in to retrieve a bird. A chap on the shoot told Dougie, it was far too early to be training a pup. Some say 10 months or older to start training, but Dougie has already let the pup play and retrieving as part of the playing. Anyone any thoughts on this ?
This is the pup today at 14 weeks old, retrieving a pigeon to hand and "sitting up " to give up the bird. Outside my house to