Just wanted to share a little experience that I am having with a dog I just got last weekend. I had a litter of pups 3 yrs ago out of my best female, and was going to keep the only female from 4 pups, but my cousin really wanted a female, so I sold her. Well the pup never got to leave the back yard or kennel in 3 yrs at my cousins house, so she asked me if I wanted her back

. I thought it over, and said ok I will give her a shot since I was getting her back for free, and I knew exactly what she could be,since I owned both parents. I took this female out for the first time last tuesday, and I couldnt believe my eyes and ears

. She hit the bushes with her mother just like she had been in the woods before. I couldnt believe it!, she followed her mother around the entire trip, even while running a rabbit, and then BOOM...there she was, starting to open up for the first time,on her first trip into the woods!

. I have ran her 4 or 5 more times since then, and she is really starting to open up good now, and even picked up a few checks of her own

. It just goes to show that starting a 3yr old dog is deffinetly possible!.