Here, trainer Charles T. Jurney demonstrates part of the complete pointing dog training program. Hundreds of years ago, men looking for an easier way to get game birds to the dinner table observed that when certain breeds of dogs stalked birds, they paused just before pouncing for the kill. The hunters figured if they could get such a dog to hold that freeze long enough for them to get there and make the kill themselves, they could have a useful hunting partner. So they bred the world s first bird dogs. And bird hunters have been breeding better bird dogs and developing training techniques ever since.
Instinct is the beginning of a bird dog, but training is the finish.
Seek proven pedigrees. Wolters knew that the average hunter did not have a lot of time or space to train a dog. If you get a pup from a litter that comes from proven parents and work with him just 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the afternoon every day from the seventh to the 16th week of his life, you can train him to be a first-class gun dog. O D S Wolters dog training methods are based on five critical learning periods early in a dog s life. The first period, from birth to day 21, is when the puppies have almost no mental capacity.