The newness of haveing another dog has warn off a bit. The old boys are well worn, with gray showing, and joints that seem stiff. They are labs, or mostly so, very differant in size and personallity. Jake, the fastest black lab/golden retriever I have ever seen. He is light for either breed, but always smart enough to out shine either.
Chuck is a solid choclate lab. He was always the slower of the two, both arriveing in my life only a couple of months apart. The three of us were together always, till the two of them couldn't decide which one was going to be the lead dog. After that, it became more difficult to run them both. I never really hunted over them, though the dreams and thoughts were there. Jake backed a springer on a pheasant when he was only five months old, and on the same day, he found one that had managed to hide from another springer. He did his part, I fell through on mine. I didn't train them properly. I left life get in the way, and once it got started, it was hard to turn it around.
So here we go again. I have bear, and for the life of me, I can't get the time to train him. He knows sit, when he feels like it, he does. Getting him to come when called hasn't worked out. I live in an area now, where he can run abit before reaching a highway, though several times that is where he takes me. My step son has never hunted, nor has he ever cared for an animal. When we got bear, he loved him, spent time with him, mostly makeing sure that bear could get away with anything he wanted. Now, when the step son comes home from school he always in a hurry to play with his pets, unfortunately, the pets are stuffed animals, and he plays with them on line. Web pets, now there is something the world really needed. I can just see the Timmy down the well, waiting for his web pet to run and get help?
So, can some one tell me how to train a dog, while raiseing two very young kids, a step son, and working full time? I really don't know how anyone manages this.
