3 TRAINING THE HUNTING DOG 



part is gone. His natural impulse for the pursuit 

 of birds and his enthusiasm in his efforts to capture 

 them are so great that he will submit to much balk- 

 ing and punishment before he will desist ; but there 

 is a certain limit beyond which he will net maintain 

 interest and effort if the trainer is over-restrictive. 



In the yard training, as in the field work, the 

 trainer should teach and handle quietly. Turbulence 

 in most instances denotes ill-temper or a badly dis- 

 ciplined mind. The loud and incessant issuing of 

 commands and blowing of whistles, in season and 

 cut of season, with or without cause, are faults com- 

 mon to nearly all amateurs, and for that matter to 

 nearly all professionals. The majority of trainers 

 are self-taught, so that bad habits of method and 

 manner acquired in the beginning are likely to be 

 retained by them throughout their lives. Habituated 

 thoroughly to their own ways, they often are quite 

 unconscious of the hullabaloo which they create, and 

 of their offensiveness to such company as may be 

 with them, to say nothing of the great handicap 

 which they impose upon any dog which may be un- 

 der their control. 



Boisterous shouting of orders and Constant whis- 



