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Bird Exposure III
Yesterday’s round of bird exposure and first exposure to unfenced area outside of puppy pen. This time we put the kick cage with a live chucker out in our bigger, unfenced side yard and brought out two pups at a time. Our interest was to see their boldness/independence to explore as well as bird interest,…
New Sounds & other good stuff
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Sound Habituation Starts with Classical Music
Don’t worry, we will Country On and Rock On later… Puppies .played by and napped by a little classical sounds today. Turn up sound! Well, playtime kinda drowning out the “soothing” music.
Quail Bird Exposure
Earlier in the day, we were doing some field training with our older Brittanys on Chucker and Quail. Unfortunately, one of our “teenager” Brittanys (aka little Miss Journey) got a little too rough with the quail, leaving it severely injured. We decided before having to euthanize it, we would use it in a kick cage…
Puppy Nursery Scenes I
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