Puppy Confidence

One way to help build your pups drive and confidence is to sweet talk him while he is on point. Let him know that he is doing a good job.  Tell him that he is the best puppy, slowly stroke his back from head to flank, pick up his tail, and give him a lot of  “that boys” . Letting a puppy know he is doing a good job is so important it will help boost his confidence he will hunt harder and longer.

Another Great way to increase a puppy prey drive is to use a cliped winged pigeon. Most times we will clip one wing of the pigeon so that it can flap around and make all kinds of ruckus but it can’t fly away. We use a pigeon with a clipped wing to get a puppy all fired up. Sometimes when there young they need a little jump start for there prey drive. Throwing out  one of these pigeons and letting the puppy chase, catch, and play with will increase his prey drive 100 % next thing you know you will have a puppy that is all fired up! We don’t do this with every puppy but it sure seems to work for some of those others that might not have been introduced to birds at an early age or just need a little shot of adrenaline to wake them up.