b'It was Spring 2010. George, myself andsome others were having a pleasantBroken Down Angel. conversation in the shade of the haybarn on a Sunday afternoon. GeorgeHickox, a top dog trainer and handler,A gun dog is trained to find game for thehandler/hunter, point the game, and retrieve the had come down to Sunset, Louisiana tolead a seminar on training bird dogs.game when sent to retrieve by the handler/hunter. We had been talking about what weveThese scent hunters locate and point birds (quail,pheasant, chucker, and other game birds). The term seen as professional trainers in the dogsgun dog broke can be defined as: the perform- that come our way; the good and theance standard of perfect manners in the field: stand- not so good. George remarked thating steady and pointing upon finding a bird, staying sometimes a dog is so badly affected bywhile the bird flies off, and going out on the retrieve misguided attempts at training that it isonly when sent by the hunter.of no use in the field.That dog is not gun dog broke,A true story as told by Lonnie Spell, dog trainer, to our contributor Pam Stuart. that dog is just broken. ( Continued) gwww.TheNewBarker.com Summer/Fall ~ 2015 THE NEW BARKER 31'