Boom bang a bang

Fran Ardley goes through the training stages needed to get your dog used to gunshot

The introduction to the sound of shot is part of a gundog’s training that needs careful planning. Fortunately, through selective breeding ‘gun shyness’ is something that today we do not often see in our gundogs. However, poor and ill-informed training can provoke a problem. Many novice owners are keen to see if their young dogs will be all right with the sound of gunshot as they are worried about putting in a lot of effort only to find that their hope for the future is scared of bangs. On the subject of bangs, there is a difference between the sound of a gun and a firework and I know of plenty of gundogs that are perfectly OK with a shotgun being fired but are really not happy about the bangs…

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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2020

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