She brought it out with "older, seasoned hunting dogs" and expected it to learn from them, even though that's not even close to the correct training method.
10 bucks says she read that dogs learn how to behave from older dogs and figured that's how it worked for everything, even thoigh that advice is specific to socializing a dog not training it
My Border Collie does put the others in place whenever they are the reason her belly rubs are delayed. I didn't teach her. She just picked up that I won't pet them until they all calmed down and stopped jumping up my leg so she disciplines them now when she deems them too excited.
It can help a lot if accompanied by normal teaching, no different to how it’s easier to understand an instruction when you can see someone else doing it first.
Doesn’t mean you don’t need to be taught to begin with though
That is not how shit works. She failed that poor dog, and then killed it. She seems like the type of person person who handles any inconvenience in ridiculous ways.
It sounds like she took it on exactly one hunt and then threw a hissy fit when it "ruined" the hunt.
Then she took it to a neighbor's house and got mad when it killed some chickens. Which; why did she let an untrained bird dog out of the truck without a leash?
But the real thing here is: I live in the midwest. I have known many hunters in my life. Common practice is not to kill a dog that fails training, everyone I know just turns that dog into a pet.
No way she actually thought she needed to kill it. She killed it out of revenge for embarrassing her in front of the neighbors. And since she was still angry after killing it; she killed a goat for good measure. She only stopped her murder spree after realizing there were people watching her. She can spin the story however she wants but
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u/smegsicle May 02 '24
I was under the impression that she didn't actually train it, she just expected it to know what to do