This is one battle that I hope the pigeons will win. It is definite. My puppy is bird obsessed.

While waiting for the car to fail inspection, Hank and I took a walk to a small public park. No dog run, just hanging out on a bench enjoying the weather and watching the world go by. At least that’s what I was doing. Hank was eyeballing every bird in the vicinity.

I took this as an opportunity to work on some basic training stuff in a high distraction environment. Wow, was that tough. He was so focused on all these birds (that I swear began to taunt him) that it was a while before he even remembered I was there. Hank improved while we were there, but he needs a lot more work while there are birds around.

I may have my hands full trying to keep my bird dog from going after every bird he sees!