Broken Down Angel.


A gun dog is trained to find game for the handler/hunter, point the game, and retrieve the game when sent to retrieve by the handler/hunter. These scent hunters locate and point birds (quail, pheasant, chucker, and other game birds). The term “gun dog broke” can be defined as: “the perform- ance standard of perfect manners in the field: stand- ing steady and pointing upon finding a bird, staying while the bird flies off, and going out on the retrieve only when sent by the hunter.”


A true story as told by Lonnie Spell, dog trainer, to our contributor Pam Stuart. www.TheNewBarker.com


It was Spring 2010. George, myself and some others were having a pleasant conversation in the shade of the hay barn on a Sunday afternoon. George Hickox, a top dog trainer and handler, had come down to Sunset, Louisiana to lead a seminar on training bird dogs. We had been talking about what we’ve seen as professional trainers in the dogs that come our way; the good and the not so good. George remarked that sometimes a dog is so badly affected by misguided attempts at training that it is of no use in the field. “That dog is not gun dog broke,


that dog is just broken.” (Continued)g Summer/Fall ~ 2015 THE NEW BARKER 31


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