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I must also agree to disagree.
You see, I understand that many gundog trainers use an empty belly to make their dogs more keen to work, but we need our dogs to be calm and and co-operative, not manic or anxious. Especially in a street, where a child might wander past munching a burger.
I would rather take more time and build up in stages than go for the confrontation, even if it does take a lot longer. I`d feel happier doing it that way. One of my dogs gets very hyperactive if I get too assertive - it`s his way of coping. So I have to back off and calm him. And there he has taught me a good lesson.
If you find what motivates the dog it becomes easier.

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I do not know of any gundog trainers who use an empty belly to make their dogs more keen to work! They would not get very far of course as not only would they, according to you, become manic and anxious, but of course they would not be able to perform for the full day's work of either walked up or driven shooting!

As gundog owners need their dogs to be "calm and cooperative" as in fact ALL dog owners do IME.

As EIC (exercise induced collapse) is a real worry in these conditions no gundog trainer would to this.

Not IME anyway

There is a huge difference between being a bit peckish and starvation, IME.

And of course if the dog is on the lead I am struggling to understand what a child eating a burger has got to do with this scenario?

Especially in this case where the dog is not actually moving........

(perhaps the child with the burger might trip over said dog?)

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