@roamer_1
Hmmm, well she's half Lab half English Mastiff and if she's anything like my last Mastador (gotta love their name) she will probably hate the water. I only went hunting once about forty years ago and that was with my brother in law for deer. He so pissed me off, left me almost five miles from camp and split that it left me with bad feelings for him and hunting. Anyway down here in SoCal I really didn't have an opportunity to try hunting again. The other thing that shied me away from hunting was all the lunatics with buck fever and how many times someone shot in my direction. Seemed to me I had better odds going to Watts stepping out on the street and yelling the 'N" word.
Thanks for compliment she is a beauty and has a great disposition. It's getting fun outside because she has really started paying attention to scents and taking a keen interest in the doves and other birds
@GtHawk Aw that's alright... I just wondered because the training is so much fun. Chewy is a cow dog. different sort of training, but a lot the same. Every thing I taught him right from the start had a command and a gesture... and soon enough he'd answer to either... I should have done the same with whistles as it turns out, but he stays in view most the time... so the gestures work alright.
He will go gee or haw in the field, as well as forward and hold. I can get him to search back and forth, or one way or another also in the field, all by gesture. Still kinda dumb alongside horseback... all this time and he still ain't figured out the horse is the one on point.
All that and he's only been to herd a handful of times... Mostly we just show up at the barn and I get things ready... And if they ain't up by then (horses mainly), I'll say, "Chew, go get em", pr "Go get em up", whereupon he'll saunter over to the top of the hill, sit down and bark once... and wait for them to come to him. Lazy ol dog. That's most of his driving talent in practice.
It's a something though... They like something to do...
