Originally Posted By: Dave Vedder
The next day we got a bunch more mallards and two huge geese. He was okay with retrieving the goose until it came to life and began flapping around. That spooked him and he dropped it like a hot o potato. But he seemed to get used to the idea once he could examine a dead goose.


Proper force fetch training would likely solve the dropped bird/returning without bird problem. Takes about a week to do. Don't let bad habits get started in a young dog.... wink