72 Modern Breaking 



breaker. In such an event the handler should 

 walk along slowly without paving any atten- 

 tion to the dog. Above all things, he should 

 not tr}' to force the dog to range. The moment 

 he attempts to do that the dog becomes impressed 

 with a fear of the things that he is only a little 

 in doubt about. If left alone until accustomed 

 to his surroundings, he would find there was 

 nothing to hurt him, and then he would do a 

 little running and then a little more, until 

 finally he would come to love the work. But 

 if the breaker insists on meddling with him a 

 serious mistake will be made. 



It is a good deal of an aggravation to go 

 tramping about the fields with a young dog 

 which will not go away, but that is a part of 

 dog breaking, and the breaker must take the 

 philosophical view of it. He should walk along 

 quietly and slowly without speaking to the dog, 

 and then go home, trying to feel at least that 

 his young dog has behaved extremely well. The 

 following day the same lesson should be re- 

 peated, and if the dog still refuses to range a 

 new locality should be selected for the third 

 outing, and this line of work should be con- 

 tinued until the dog shows some disposition 

 to get out and hunt. Patience and good judg- 

 ment are all that are necessary to get the dog to 

 range. No amount of coaxing or force can do 

 it. On the contrary, they only retard the work. 



