My hunting dog

[Tanzer]

I originally posted this under "off topic", but thought it went better here;
Okay, I'm not the world's best trainer, but I'm getting there. We were at our place in Maine this week, so I did a little training with my dogs. The Black Lab is an awesome water dog, and LOVES it when I take out a gun, but he needed a little work with retrieving. The problem is, I inadvertently trained him to go to the same spot each time. It was some work getting him to get it right, but my patience paid off. I actually got him able to follow in any direction, though the video doesn't show it. The black Border Collie mix is a great dog, but way better at flushing out than retrieving. He's just being jealous.
Watch a few highlights;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmQTtNybzQo

[VegasGeorge]

Uh, Tanzer, I don't know quite how to tell this, so I guess I'd better just spit it out.

It looks to me as if the dog trained YOU to shoot in the direction he was running. :lol:

[Tanzer]

Uh, Tanzer, I don't know quite how to tell this, so I guess I'd better just spit it out.

It looks to me as if the dog trained YOU to shoot in the direction he was running.
I can see why it looks this way, but remember, I spliced/split longer MPEGS to show the end result. In the end, he was going where he was supposed to, including the original training direction.