[H2 FowlMouth Retrievers]

At what point do you consider a dog a washout?

 

[EdA]

At what point do you consider a dog a washout?

Depends on what your goals are, my washout might be your perfect dog.

 

[BonMallari]

when you give up on him emotionally and are no longer eager to write the checks for training and entries...its a lot like retirement, if you are thinking washout, you've already taken the first step to washing them out

 

[Breck]

Nominal marker, self employed on blinds, can't count to three.

 

[John Lash]

When you realize the dog isn't going to be what you want it to be. It's an expensive labor of love. There's only so much love and so much money...

 

[deadriver]

I just washed out one that will not make it in our household but will be given a chance for full time FT work with the new owners. She may not make it, as they say, there is many a slip....but she is just too much dog for a guy that only trains a few days a week and she needs a LOT more than she is getting to give her an outlet and see her potential. So, sometimes you wash one for reasons other than they will not do the field work. As said, it depends on the goals of the owner but if the dog is not special to you, find the person for which they can be special....its more fair to the dog in the end to be with the owner that fits it.

I am eager to see how this young dog does with the new owners and a very well known FT pro, but i am also eager to not have her chewing the trailer lights off my dog trailer, my equipment trailer, not eating the siding off the house and digging up the time warner cable . I piddle with a derby or Q here and there and a dog like that is just too much GO for us, so hopefully our washout becomes the new owners AFC in about 5 years...

 

[H2 FowlMouth Retrievers]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I purchased this pup with the hope of running hunt test so I followed all the steps. He's right at 11mos so I will allow him to mature. I'm not giving up yet. He has too much drive and natural talent. He's just so stubborn and headstrong.

 

[hawgsalot]

They all are at that age give him some time to grow up

 

[Kirk Keene]

At what point do you consider a dog a washout?

When it becomes apparent they don't have the "want-to" to do the job at hand.