Does anyone know if english setters are easy to train for pheasant hunting?
by admin on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | 5 Comments
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English Setters were bred as gun dogs (like Labradors), so they should be OK unless their instincts have been bred out of them!
That is practically what English Setters are bred for.
They are bred to point and retrieve. How easily trainable a dog is depends on the individual dog, but English Setters, in general, are VERY smart dogs and very easy to train.
From above link: “Very trainable as long as a soft hand is used. Perceived as stubborn by those using a heavy-handed training method.”
Having had several different gun breeds in my life, three of which were English setters, I’d say they are very easy to train. It’s extremely important that you start with a dog from field stock and not show or bench stock. Training a bird dog to hunt is more about harnessing its natural hunting instinct and desire.
english setters were developed to be gun dogs. The dogs naturally ‘set’ or stop and freeze, basically like a pointing dog but without holding up the paw, when they sense a gamebird
Just get a pup out of working parents and not comformation parents. They can be high strung as can any working breed. I have always hunted upland game with a Lab, I have friends that prefer the English Pointer and must say they have always had dogs with good instinct and a good all around temperament (and less coat to manage vs the setter) I’m not entirely find of the German Shorthair…good hunters but can have a poor temperament with strangers etc. Currently, I hunt with a Standard Poodle…She is absolutely awesome but again, looked hard and long to find one from hunting bloodlines. She was a natural and caught on great!