Tip of the Month
 Brooke Van de Brake
Brooke has enjoyed training hunting dogs for people
in the Northwest for over thirty years. |
September 2004-transition from training to huntingI have always tried to correlate dog training with things that go on in our own life as we are growing up.
The one anology between you and I getting a education and dog training is this.
Whether we went to college or trade school or high school, The education we recieved gave us the tools to go out in the work place and do a certain job.
Granted we had the education we needed to do the job, but we were missing one important aspect, that is the practial part of melding our schooling with the actual job. Say I went to truck drivers school and learned to operate abig rig and drive it through aseries of cones, and could back it up. That is all fine and well, but that doesn't prepare me for some crazy guy zipping in and out of traffic and cutting me off when I have 80 thousand pounds to stop. It does not preparre me for slick roads and foggy weather. Learning to deal with those things take practial experience. When I come out of Law school I have a degree but the first few times in court I am having a hard time because of my lack of practial experience. The point is,it is no different for the dogs. Our beginng training is in a rather controlled enviroment and we learn through habit and repitition. Now what has to happen is we have to meld our training with the practial job of real day to day hunting.
The first few trips can be frustrating at times, but remember when you got out of college, your adjustment time to your job did not happen the first day on the job.
It will not take your pup many trips to put his training together with actual hunting and before you know it your young dog will be perfoming like a veteran. TRAINING EXPEDITES THE LEARNING PROCESS IN A PRACTIAL APPLICATION.
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