SAMI A CHANGE OF PACE PART 4 - INDICATING DOGS
I also included a wee story to demonstrate what Sami was capable of doing at what I consider to be a young age for an indicator dog. There is no doubt that she was doing well.
Most of the best dogs I have seen showed their colours early and then got better with age (maturity) and training. The great thing about this is that a good pup will often be showing traits and mannerisms that you will identify as things that will in time lead to a dog with ‘the right stuff’. I reckon a young dog with the right stuff is twice as good at three years old as it was at two.
It’s not so good though when a handler fails to recognise negative traits that are part of the dog’s mental makeup and not just a young dog that hasn’t fully matured and developed. That can result in a lot of time spent on a dog that ultimately will not deliver what you want and need.
It would be really easy for me to
