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SEPTEMBER, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
447 
Breaking 
A Gun-Shy Dog 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Here is a very good way to break a gun- 
shy dog when other methods fail—I have 
had such good success with gun-shy dogs 
I want to see them all get a chance. 
Put your dog in a pen or inside a build¬ 
ing—some nice clean place. If you have 
another dog put him in too. When you 
feed them—it should be twice a day—open 
the door and let them come out of the pen 
or building to eat. Don’t let them eat 
where you keep them. 
Do this for two or three days. After 
they eat, let them take a ten or fifteen- 
minute run around the yard, then put 
them back in the pen. Change their drink 
ing water and feed them about the same 
time every day, and teach them to expect 
you at those hours, and to know your call 
or whistle.—This is when you commence to 
work on him. 
When he comes to the door or gate, have 
your gun with you and fire it off as he ap¬ 
proaches. You may think he is going to 
die from the way he will scoot back into 
his box, but he won’t. Just open the gate 
and let the other dog out; feed him, let 
him run loose about ten minutes, then put 
him back and change the water in the pen. 
But don’t call or in any way notice the 
gun-shy dog. Shut the gate and leave him 
alone until next feeding time. 
When you go out to the pen again, don't 
pay any attention to the dog you are break¬ 
ing. Don’t even see him or speak to him; 
and continue this until when you open the 
gate he will come out for his feed. This 
may look cruel and unkind, but it is not. 
When he does come out, stand beside the 
feed-pan and fire off the gun—but don’t 
pay any attention to the dog. Let him eat 
as long as there is anything in his dish, 
if he will—and the chances are that he 
will—but if he should run back in the 
pen don’t let on that you see him. Just 
shut him in and put the other dog back 
when he is through eating. Leave him un¬ 
til the next time to feed, and shoot al¬ 
ways before you let him out. 
This method will scare some funny capers 
out of some dogs, but I have never seen 
it fail in the end, and the longest I have 
ever had a dog go without his food was 
five days. He came for it all right then, 
and worked all right,—and made a hundred 
dollar dog into one that later sold for 
three hundred. 
The one thing I want to emphasize is, 
don’t ever pet or call the dog to you 
while you are breaking him of being gun- 
shy. I have been with people who would 
take a dog out and shoot over him and 
then run after him and get him and pet 
him. When you pet a dog, he thinks he 
has done the thing you wanted him to do, 
so don't pet him when he scuttles. 
In the case of the dog I had to work 
on five days I had a boy take him a small 
piece of meat between feeding times on 
the fourth day—just a small piece, about 
five ounces. The fifth day he came out 
and stood until I shot twice, then went 
back. The next day he staid until he was 
through eating. You still have to be care- 
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