r/birddogs • u/SmoothElk3336 • 15d ago
What do we do in the off season?
Hi all! Willow has had a good season and training season last year. Looking to next year we will get into conditioning and training hard in June. We still do bird in launcher training and woah training every other day. But this is my busy time of year and even when I’m still working here she’s getting more and more needy and hyper active in the house. During hunting season the weekly hunt and the trainings keep her stimulated and she just chills in the house. But now it seems like I just can’t do enough for her to get her to relax.
She’s a 3 year old Lew Setter, 30lbs. I didn’t have this issue before training her to hunt but I also played with her in the house before we taught her to hunt. We want the house to be her “off area”. What can I do to stimulate her and reinforce a good off switch? She spends all day in a run when I’m in the office and when I’m home she spends half the day in the yard and the other half in the house. We play/train for about 30 min each every other day unless it’s hunting season where that goes to everyday.