The Flush/Stop Cue
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:00 am
I'll be posting some new videos soon on how we hunt over and handle the dogs with the Higgins method. Below is a link to a related video shot a couple of years ago. The hunts are quiet and calm. Like a walk in the park.
https://youtu.be/PfWSJ4TYt6o
Accompanying video text:
This is one of our black pointer pups, Olive, in the field today during one of our training hunts. Here, she finds a bird and waits for us to catch up. Once we arrive, I get the shooter in place and give Olive our Flush/Stop cue. She did her beautiful aggressive flush to present the bird to the guns, but the bird refused to fly. So what does she do? She stops, resets and waits to be cued again. She does a second flush on cue and stops. She is then sent for the retrieve. Dogs are pretty smart if you trust them and give them the freedom to make decisions.
No e-collars are used. The collar in the video is a GPS collar.
https://youtu.be/PfWSJ4TYt6o
Accompanying video text:
This is one of our black pointer pups, Olive, in the field today during one of our training hunts. Here, she finds a bird and waits for us to catch up. Once we arrive, I get the shooter in place and give Olive our Flush/Stop cue. She did her beautiful aggressive flush to present the bird to the guns, but the bird refused to fly. So what does she do? She stops, resets and waits to be cued again. She does a second flush on cue and stops. She is then sent for the retrieve. Dogs are pretty smart if you trust them and give them the freedom to make decisions.
No e-collars are used. The collar in the video is a GPS collar.