I don't post here much but i could use alittle advice.
Vickies thread got me thinking about a situation that came up this weekend. On Saturday I had a group of clients out to field hunt honkers, where we did really well considering the setup and the condition. Well on Sunday things were a bit different weather wise but also with my dog. Saturday she did pretty good retrieved 8 out of the 11 birds and ran two really long blinds on sailors. Anyways on Sunday I had a flock of honkers that were working the area around us so I laid into them with the call and tried getting them to decoy into us, well my dog went nuts. She has always been a whinner in the blind, a trait that I have come to accept and realize that it is just not going to get better with her regardless on what I do (and I have tried it all nothing works, anyways this day it turned into a little bit louder whine, and then into an groan then into a real throaty groan/howl. Obviously I stopped calling grabbed her muzzel and told her quite and went back to calling. Well that just made matters worse and it got louder so I did it again, and again it got louder. When I stop she stopped, if I blew a duck call, she didn't do it, it was only with a goose call. When I would grab her muzzle and tell her quite she would get that look of complete confusion on her face like she had not idea what was wrong.
Obviously this is unacceptable, but since I goose hunt more than I duck hunt this beyond anything that is relatively close to being acceptable. I am not sure how to handle this, if it only happens in the field, then taking her out of the field because of it won't solve anything, but grabbing her muzzel and telling her quite isn't sovling anything else.
Vickies thread got me thinking about a situation that came up this weekend. On Saturday I had a group of clients out to field hunt honkers, where we did really well considering the setup and the condition. Well on Sunday things were a bit different weather wise but also with my dog. Saturday she did pretty good retrieved 8 out of the 11 birds and ran two really long blinds on sailors. Anyways on Sunday I had a flock of honkers that were working the area around us so I laid into them with the call and tried getting them to decoy into us, well my dog went nuts. She has always been a whinner in the blind, a trait that I have come to accept and realize that it is just not going to get better with her regardless on what I do (and I have tried it all nothing works, anyways this day it turned into a little bit louder whine, and then into an groan then into a real throaty groan/howl. Obviously I stopped calling grabbed her muzzel and told her quite and went back to calling. Well that just made matters worse and it got louder so I did it again, and again it got louder. When I stop she stopped, if I blew a duck call, she didn't do it, it was only with a goose call. When I would grab her muzzle and tell her quite she would get that look of complete confusion on her face like she had not idea what was wrong.
Obviously this is unacceptable, but since I goose hunt more than I duck hunt this beyond anything that is relatively close to being acceptable. I am not sure how to handle this, if it only happens in the field, then taking her out of the field because of it won't solve anything, but grabbing her muzzel and telling her quite isn't sovling anything else.
