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cwalt

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12/15/2007 5:36 PM
> Can a completely non cooperative dog learn to be cooperative? > > An inherently uncooperative dog is not capable of working with a human, it > appears to be a behavior that can not be learned but is inherited from the > parents. Such a dog can be trained to be obedient but obedience isn't > cooperation. In fact training to be obedient to all commands is really > the only way that one can hunt with an uncooperative dog. I have seen > trainers work for months or even years trying to make an uncooperative dog > into a cooperative dog, I have never seen success in this effort. > Cj Many years ago I was judging a natural ability test and a young fellow showed up with a dog that I deemed uncooperative. In the field search the dog found and caught a quail. The handler called the young dog (8 months old). The animal stared at him for a second and turned and ran directly away from him and out of sight. The dog showed up in the field about 10 minutes later without the quail and went back to searching. The young man asked me what he should do/ I told him that the only thing he could do was force train the animal but it would probably never cooperate with him. Five years later the handler and the same dog showed up in a utility test and I happened to be the one to drag a dead pheasant for the retrieve by drag and so I waited in cover and watched the bird. The dog came from the field into the cover at a dead run and circled the bird. The dog then went to the edge of the over and looked at his handler and the other judges out in the field. Then the dog came back and urinated on the pheasant, kicked some dirt on it and ran back to the owner without the bird. The dog was restarted and this time it arrived at the bird scooped it up and ran another 20 yards into the woods and started digging a hole. The dog completely buried the bird and kicked leaves all over the grave before heading back to the handler. An apprentice judge with me was astonished by the performance and I had to explain to him that this was about as uncooperative as a dog could get. After the test the handler was sad about the performance but he did cheer up a bit when he told me that the dog was the best running and covering search dog he had ever owned. Cj

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