Waterfowl Dog Completely Useless Upland
Hey All,
Jack is a 4 year old yellow lab. He is a phenomenal waterfowl dog. He's a true hunting athlete and everything is as perfect as it can get in the duck blind.
The exact opposite is true when hunting upland. He's pretty damn cute, but useless as all hell. His preference is to walk in a perfect heal the entire time because thats what I spent 4 years training him to do for waterfowl purposes. I've gotten to the point where I have to give him a "back command" and he does a 50 yard loop in front of me and runs back to a perfect heal until I give him another command. I'm hitting a brick wall when trying to get him to run ahead of me and to know that there are actually birds out there if he goes and looks for them.
Anyone out there have any suggestions? I think he's just expecting everything to happen only because I make it happen and he has no clue he can't go out and make it happen on his own.
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