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My family have a golden retriever that we rescued. The dog isn't badly behaved in general but didn't get any training until he was 2 1/2 (when we rescued him) so his retention in general isn't great.
It's a real problem though in the shooting season. I live in the English countryside and during the shooting season farmers will keep large cages full of birds by the fields that I normally walk my dog. When he finds these cages he barks, runs frantically around the cage and won't come when I call him. It's difficult to even catch him and drag him away while he's doing this.
He smells these cages a mile off and I don't always know where they will be (they move depending on where the shoot is planned I guess) so the only way I can stop him is keeping him on a leash the whole time, which I really wouldn't like to do.
I know it's a weird one but does anyone have any advice or experience on what to do? It stresses me out because he doesn't answer me and can get in trouble if he's caught disrupting other people's animals (legally farmer has the right to shoot him). It's ruining a lot of the great walks I used to take him on.
It's a real problem though in the shooting season. I live in the English countryside and during the shooting season farmers will keep large cages full of birds by the fields that I normally walk my dog. When he finds these cages he barks, runs frantically around the cage and won't come when I call him. It's difficult to even catch him and drag him away while he's doing this.
He smells these cages a mile off and I don't always know where they will be (they move depending on where the shoot is planned I guess) so the only way I can stop him is keeping him on a leash the whole time, which I really wouldn't like to do.
I know it's a weird one but does anyone have any advice or experience on what to do? It stresses me out because he doesn't answer me and can get in trouble if he's caught disrupting other people's animals (legally farmer has the right to shoot him). It's ruining a lot of the great walks I used to take him on.