BOB WHITE AND BIRD 
DOGS 
(Continued from page 78) 
GREAT deal has been written on 
the training and selection of pup- 
pies, but when it is all sifted down 
and summed up, there is nothing in a 
puppy that forecasts its real future. 
A youngster may be extremely preco- 
cious for six months, yet at twelve 
months later that lankest duffer in the 
litter may far outclass him. Many 
good trainers do not check a dog until 
it is over a year old, but simply afford 
it every opportunity to hunt according 
to its own sweet will, the purpose be- 
ing to develop a confidence in self and 
a knowledge of the haunts and habits 
of birds. As we have mentioned be- 
fore, a high-class dog brought down to 
severe training and hunted hard will, 
as a rule, slow up badly between the 
third and fourth year, a period when 
they really should be starting in their 
prime: The art of dog training calls 
for close observation of the character 
of the puppy. It is against most na- 
tures to wait, and this is why so many 
dogs are ruined or condemned without 
being really understood. 
Of all the books that have been 
written on dog training, “Modern 
Breaking” will probably do more to 
help the amateur to a clear insight 
into bird dog character and assist him 
in developing the kind of a dog that 
he wants for his particular purposes. 
This book will carry him over many 
hard places and we will, therefore, not 
allude to training, except to offer a 
little advice by way of suggestion. 
It is well to encourage friendship 
with your dog by close association 
and close companionship during walks 
afield, but if ever you expect to make 
a real classy individual, do not hold 
the young dog to point on larks, spar- 
rows and pigeons, nor try to steady 
him to wing. More false pointers, 
potterers and blinkers are made in 
this manner than by anything else. 
No matter how wild a youngster may 
be, nor how much he taxes your pa- 
tience by chasing birds, do not begin 
to steady him to point too soon. 
Allow him to learn in his own way 
how to work up wind and locate a 
close-lying bevy, as well as one that is 
running. If you have the patience to 
wait, your dog will largely educate 
himself as to the proper value to be 
placed upon scent, and eventually he 
will learn not to false point, or linger 
on foot scent, and will handle his birds 
fast and accurately under almost every 
conceivable condition. A dog developed 
along these lines will locate and hold 
a covey of birds in light cover that a 
slow dog working on foot scent would 
flush. 
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