I've heard some say never walk in front of a flagging dog. I've had some success using my voice to move her on. Perhaps that only solved points of uncertainty, i.e., getting her to move forward until she was certain. Other times she just keeps her feet planted and flags. I've tried pushing her on her rear (which has worked a few times on other dogs), but while she resists with her feet to move forward, she doesn't stop flagging. Here's a covey find from late yesterday where she flags followed by a covey today when she didn't. And a previous covey yesterday, I saw her slam them without flagging and then 10 seconds later she STARTS flagging!?!? I sure hope she outgrows it, because I've only had one dog at her age that could find as many wild birds as her and I've owned over two dozen dogs over the years.
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