I have a 2 year old BLM that is flat out energetic, VERY, VERY eager to do work. For his extreme level of drive he is very obedient (which is due to plenty of sessions firming it up in an attempt to help with his noise, which it has considerably). It has been a fight to stay on top of to say the least.
Here is where we stand at this point. He use to whine like nobody’s business while on line before, during, and after the birds hit the ground, but after MUCH work and elbow grease (2 yrs
) he is now a gentlemen........right up until after I say his name then he comes out of the blocks, dust and weeds fly everywhere and he lets the whole world know how excited he is to go. I have tried and tried to put a stop to this but the relay switch from me to him is not quite sinking in. I have made an impression on him that noise anytime before the send is not acceptable, but impressing that on him after the send isn't making it through his skull.
He will sit their and watch multiple birds hit the ground quietly but vocalized as soon as he is sent, and it typically only occurs when sent for the first bird then he is quiet when sent for memory birds. The only thing I can do to keep him quiet all the way through the send is either heeling him in a full 360 rotation then sending him, run bird in mouth, send him to the memory bird first etc.., the element of surprise works the best, but I feel like I am more avoiding the problem with these then fixing it. Heck he will even vocalize on a blind like he does on a mark sometimes.
Any ideas????? I am starting to think running marks until the point of boredom every sesson is the only way to get a fix. Or maybe with this only occurring on the initial bird I am being a little to critical.
Kory
Here is where we stand at this point. He use to whine like nobody’s business while on line before, during, and after the birds hit the ground, but after MUCH work and elbow grease (2 yrs
) he is now a gentlemen........right up until after I say his name then he comes out of the blocks, dust and weeds fly everywhere and he lets the whole world know how excited he is to go. I have tried and tried to put a stop to this but the relay switch from me to him is not quite sinking in. I have made an impression on him that noise anytime before the send is not acceptable, but impressing that on him after the send isn't making it through his skull. He will sit their and watch multiple birds hit the ground quietly but vocalized as soon as he is sent, and it typically only occurs when sent for the first bird then he is quiet when sent for memory birds. The only thing I can do to keep him quiet all the way through the send is either heeling him in a full 360 rotation then sending him, run bird in mouth, send him to the memory bird first etc.., the element of surprise works the best, but I feel like I am more avoiding the problem with these then fixing it. Heck he will even vocalize on a blind like he does on a mark sometimes.
Any ideas????? I am starting to think running marks until the point of boredom every sesson is the only way to get a fix. Or maybe with this only occurring on the initial bird I am being a little to critical.
Kory
