Dogs of breed a spaniel in the majority hunting. And if at a cocker spaniel the skills of production of a small game are lost, this breed decorative, then all others are great field men. Therefore, training a spaniel in teams, it is necessary to consider this his feature transferred from generation to generation.
Instruction
1. First of all a spaniel, as well as any other dog, it is necessary to teach a nickname. It is the main team which the puppy has to remember the first.
2. When you make to a dog a breakfast, a lunch or a dinner, put delicacy in a bowl. You hold capacity in hand and call the kid by name. As soon as the puppy runs up, put a bowl on a floor. Thus, the little spaniel will very quickly master the nickname.
3. Spaniels are excellent hunters. And they absorb desire to catch an animal with mother's milk. Therefore the puppy that he did not do much harm to other pets or cats and birds on the street, should be taught team it ""is impossible"".
4. It ""is impossible"" to teach team or it is ""faugh"" simple. When the puppy takes some thing in teeth, for him not intended or suddenly will begin to gnaw furniture, approach him and firmly tell it ""is impossible"". Take away a thing from a mouth. If the puppy obeyed implicitly, treat him with delicacy. This skill needs to be fulfilled to such an extent that the dog stopped any occupation, having heard this team.
5. If you are going to hunt with a spaniel, then it is better to begin training at the age of 9-10 months. By this time the puppy has to master all main commands and learn to obey implicitly the owner.
6. For fishing of a game of a spaniel it is obligatory to teach the following: - to go and stand at the owner's leg on command ""to a leg"" or ""nearby""; - to execute the ""lie"" and ""sit"" command as near the owner, so in the distance from him; - the puppy has to be able to search for a game in the direction specified by the owner and to change the direction of search in team (so-called search by ""shuttle"").
7. Search by ""shuttle"" consists in the systematic, systematized obyskivaniye of hunting grounds a dog. At the same time the puppy should not leave the owner further than on 30-35 meters and make a lot of noise. Practically all spaniels have knack of search by ""shuttle"", the owner needs only to develop this skill.
8. All other hunting skills come with experience and very strongly depend on abilities of each dog. Therefore you should not abuse a spaniel puppy for the first failures in catching of a game. Wait 2-3 seasons, and you receive the excellent, well brought dog - the first assistant in any hunting.