I Trained My Shelter Dog to Hunt Ducks and Grouse in a Month. He's a Natural

I Trained My Shelter Dog to Hunt Ducks and Grouse in a Month. He's a Natural

Duck season opened Sept. 1 for Reed Carlson in Alaska. His dog’s first retrieve, a mallard, came straight to hand that morning, followed by 11 more ducks. Carlson’s retriever, Harley, performed like he’d been hunting waterfowl since the day he was born. It was, indeed, what the dog was born to do, though no one knew that at the shelter, where he’d been kept as a stray until a month prior. “I’ve never trained a dog and I’m not much of a waterfowl…