A Few Things I Have Noticed

Reuben, I hope your observations hold true.

I'm just starting out but have a dog who is extremely shy, and extremely laid back around the house, and seems to show more brains than most dogs I have ever been around. I have an extensive background with German Shepherds, who are suppoed to be some smart dogs, and she is smarter than most of them that I have been around. She dont hunt out very far, but she works hard in the ground that she covers. In my yard she will come right to me when called. In the field, she will come right to me when called as long as we arent near the truck. However, when she sees everyone loading up dogs, she wont come to me for nothing. If she sees dogs goin in the box she is headed back out to make another loop. Kind of a pain in the butt sometimes, but I like that in her at the same time. Shows me she wants to get out and work. I have just learned to make sure she is the first dog caught when it is time to go. She aint been on a caught hog in the woods yet other than staged hunts, but she is hell on a hog in a pen in the few times she has been in one. But at home she will curl up at my feet and try to love all over me. In the woods, open the box and she is all business. She is just now a yr old, and like I said while she dont hunt out that far, she is getting farther out with every trip to the woods, and I still have high hopes for this pup.