Quote, paraphrase, and citation #3

"It's never good when a wingshooter takes a young retriever duck hunting for the first time and then doesn't understand why their pride and joy is picking up sticks in the water and bringing back decoys instead of ducks. If that dog has never been in a duck blind before, it's understandable to me" -John Riggle
Some people push their dogs into doing something before they are ready. Dogs get happy with the achievement that they retrieved something-whether it is a stick or a decoy- people just need to teach them the correct thing to do from the wrong things. It’s not the dogs fault, but it is not really the owners fault either. The dog is learning something new; It is kind of like riding a bike, if someone just sits you on there and tells you pedal- how do you know which way to pedal or even how to?- You end up doing what you think is right, and do it the best way possible. If the dog has never been taught the difference between the real things and the fake ones, then he or she is blind to what they need to know. This is also what John Riggle thinks and he does not stand alone on it.

Rigle, John. "Prepare Your Retreiver for Duck Hunting." Ducks. Ducks Unlimited, 2010. Web. 11 Nov 2010. <http://www.ducks.org/hunting/retriever-training/preparing-for-duck-hunting/page3>.