Show TEACH DOGS TO RETRIEVE Luck of Patience Cause of or Many Fall Fall- 11 rell The Tho amateur dog trainer sometimes finds a great groat deal o of difficulty in teaching teaching teach teach- ing a n dog doS to retrieve Many failures are aro tho the result of lack of patience on the part of or both do dog and trainer Tho The dog should bo ho taught a little at a n time says 81 the Country Gentleman n. Tr Try cutting the wings s off a a. bird and fastening them to a ball bail or other object that the tho do doIs dog is accustomed to retrieving When ho he will fetch the tho ball with the wings In s at attached nt- nt partly cover the ball bail with tho the birds bird's skin and anti feathers When ho no longer hesitates at the feather teather covered ball bali try a bird one bird one that has hM been dead long enough so that mo most t of ot the tho scent has hns disappeared Remember that many dogs dislike tho the scent of snipe Ipe duck or oran an any of the tho waterfowl l family hence u use uso o oa a quail lark or some such bird After a few TOW lessons ho he should be retrieving the dead bird and from that stage to the tho bird Just killed Jellied should be easy It If tho the dog takes pleasure in retrieving ln from water vater It might be bo well to throw his dead bird Into tho the water for tor him to fetch the first few times Tho water will flatten down the feathers teather so BO that t they will not come off oft In his mouth mouth- something ho probably r dislikes If It no attempt has been mado to force the dog to retrieve or If ho he has hns not been whipped for refusing to retrieve the plan I have outlined above will almost certainly prove proto effectual If It an at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt has been made mado to force break the Ute dog to retrieve and a failure made of ot the tho attempt thus arousing the temper tem tom per POl and opposition of at the dog doJ without conquering his will it Is possible that no system of ot play piny would provo prove a n. success success suc sue cess but the lessons In force breaking would have to bo be continued until the animal became a force torce broken Few amateur trainers have an any business business busi busl- ness nes to attempt to force torce break a dog to retrieve |