Living on a farm Bo is often with me during the day and it's allowed me to introduce him to some experiences and see how he reacts. I've taken it easy on this but still allowed him to have the experience. I took him straight out when I had only had him a week with zero training and stalked in on a fallow spiker that was grazing out in the open of one of our paddocks, the deer came in to about 15yds of us at one point and I made a video that I posted on my Facebook hunting page and got absolutely blown to bits by all the "know it all" dog handlers on there for introducing him to deer that young. In hindsight I do think it was a mistake though, I'm glad I didn't shoot the animal as it could have been a mistake introducing him to a downed animal without actually having any idea of how I wanted him to react, if he had spooked the deer it could have made him think he's supposed to spook deer also.
So, we buttoned off that and have kept him away from deer for now.
I have however had him on the farm quite a bit as I go about my day and he definately likes to give his nose a workout! One point we were measuring some grass at the back of the farm below a fenced off gully full of gorse and crap, he stopped and sat of his own accord at one point and began air scenting flat out whilst looking up into the scrub, his rail was pointing straight out like he was interested in what he could smell. I took a video of him doing this for reference but didn't think much of it. We moved on and as we got back to my truck a deer bolted from the scrub where we had been just a few minutes earlier and trotted away across the hill, I think he had definately smelt it but didn't know what it was at the time, I'm happy he didn't try investigate further
This is him sitting and air scenting that day
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