Dog flushing

Breton13 · Post by **Breton13** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:51 pm

As some of you know, I grew up in Norway, and hunting "over there" is a little bit different. There, the dog points, you walk up, dog flushes on command and then sits. After the bird is shot, the dog is sent to retrieve.

Does anyone here train like this, and if so what methods do you use?
Alos, I'm planning on using my Brit mainly as a hunting companion, but what are the rules for this kind of flushing in the different dog/hunting tirals?

I know spaniels and retrivers are trains similarily, but I believe they are closer working dogs (?).

Any input appreciated

snips · Post by **snips** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:04 pm

In any pointing dog format the dog cannot flush, you have to. If you are simply hunting you can train him to do whatever you desire. If we have flushing dogs in to train, we train this way. They will sometimes start pointing on their own, if they do thats fine, they just flush on command. We do lots of sit drills in the kennel, then in the field before putting it on birds.

Wagonmaster · Post by **Wagonmaster** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:05 pm

For field trials and hunt tests here in the US, the dog is not allowed to move once it establishes point. Handler flushes, bird is shot. The dog may not move until sent to retrieve.

A dog can be asked to relocate, if the bird has run out. A "move to mark" is allowed in the rules, when the bird is killed, but in actual practice the dog had better not move. The dog is not allowed to flush.

But is what you want is a hunting dog, you can do anything you want with it.

Breton13 · Post by **Breton13** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:08 pm

But is what you want is a hunting dog, you can do anything you want with it.

Why, thank you

Actually, I'm going to see how we do in the field before I make any further decisions. Just fun stuff right now, and we'll go from there. She was trained to "whoa" and "come" before we did the "sit" thing, but we're still working on everything. We don't do "sit" outside, or in the filed. In fact, we're just working on finding birds right now

. Just searching for different methods out there.....

Wagonmaster · Post by **Wagonmaster** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:53 pm

Your Britt is just a few months old if I recall correctly, at any rate under a year. This year I would not worry to much about training it in any particular way on birds. This should be the dog's year. Train "come"or whatever word you want for recall, and leave the rest to the dog. It needs to really fall in love with birds, start doing some pointing, enjoy the whole experience, before you start to put any training on it.

My .02 anyway.

NE Vizsla · Post by **NE Vizsla** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:33 am

For field trials and hunt tests here in the US, the dog is not allowed to move once it establishes point. Handler flushes, bird is shot. The dog may not move until sent to retrieve.

The dog can as you would say "jump" after the shot and still be ok as long as he/she stops themselves.