A few months ago I wrote a piece on the practice of training gundogs using the ‘positive only’ method and the fashion in some quarters for constantly rewarding the dog.
I find this really difficult to get my head around. Gundogs are high-drive animals, and if you have any aspirations to work them in the shooting field, as opposed to simply having a gundog breed and doing ‘pet gundog’ training, you will at some point need to correct your dog.
For example, if you
