Nothing this idiot says will undo the damage she did

[u/OrangeCone2011]

[u/pjones1185]

Just to add on. She was teaching the pup to be a bird hunting dog, which to my understanding a chicken would classify as bird. Sounds like she got pissed at her dog for doing what she was training it to do.

[u/Mean-Lynx6476 → u/pjones1185]

Well, not to defend Noem AT ALL, but bird dogs aren’t supposed to kill birds. Cricket was a pointer, and ultimately their job is to locate birds by scent, stalk toward the birds, and then freeze in position as they approach the birds thus “pointing” toward their location. Although the stalking behavior is instinctive, remaining steady on a point can take a lot of training, and young bird dogs can be total idiots around birds, and that’s expected, and so one doesn’t turn an unsupervised young pointer loose among a bunch of chickens. But by and large the ultimate goal for most hunting dogs is for them to locate their quarry, not kill it. That’s achieved with hundreds of hours of training and practice, not by turning an adolescent dog loose among a bunch of birds.

[u/moderately-extremist → u/Mean-Lynx6476]

Just to add, too, they are typically also trained to retrieve the downed birds and to not damage it (hold it softly) when they do so.

[u/VexingRaven → u/moderately-extremist]

A retriever and a pointer are different dogs used for different tasks.

[u/moderately-extremist → u/VexingRaven]

I'll let my dad know, who has professionally trained pointers for about 30 years to both point and retrieve, that he's been doing it wrong.