I have not been able to do any more formal training with Lucy this week. I have been out of town on business. I did purchase a new training dvd and had the time to review it. The trainer is George Hickox and the training video is called Training Pointing Dogs and it is a four part series.

I really like the training methods in this video and I think I will be following this method for her training.

The only exception is the method used for training your pointer range.

The method on this video teaches a pointer to have a fixed cast off and range distance. I would like to teach Lucy to have flexible cast off and range distance that are command guided. I don't know if there is a way to teach this but I'm sure I will exhaust myself looking for it.

If anyone has any suggestions please contact me through my feedback link below.

In keeping with the training methods of this video I will be getting some live birds for Lucy to play with this weekend. I think this will help build her confidence. Although I do have to say that Lucy has been coming out of her shell quite nicely lately. She has made friends with all my cats, she spends a good deal of her time entertaining herself with stuffed animals. These are really my daughters stuffed animals but Lucy goes upstairs and helps herself to them. My daughter don't seem to mind to much. She has been doing great letting us know when she needs to go out and she goes straight to her kennel when told to do so (reluctantly but she goes).

We are very happy with Lucy and she has integrated into our family very quickly. I might have mentioned this before but we live across the street from an animal hospital so she seems to get a little extra special attention.

She had a checkup last week and I think I made out on the deal. Lucy came back from her appointment with three new toys that probably cost more than the visit did.

Well I guess thats all I can think of for now. I will post another update this week end.

 

 

 Today I took Lucy to fields managed by the Game commission on the perimeter of Raystown Lake. These fields are stocked with pheasant before the first season but are hunted heavily. I was hoping she would stumble onto a straggler. We were not lucky enough to find one but she did seem to get onto some scent now and again.

She was very well behaved, ranged good and checked in often. She did not seem crazy about blazing her own trail through the tall thick grass (contained some brier) and tended to stick to the deer trails. So I spent a lot of time in there myself so she would come in.

We walked the edge of the lake and she has this thing she does in water that I'm not to sure what to make of it. At home she does it in her water bowl and she did it at the lake. she hits the water with her paw. At the lake its no big deal but at home she makes a big mess.

We got home and she was soaked and quiet stinky. I gave her a bath (she was not thrilled but she let me). Now she is lying beside me on the couch (I know she is breaking rule number 1) Snuggled under a blanket sleeping. I guess I wore her out.

I tried to get a picture but I am having camera trouble and have not been able to get anything but black pictures.