this is probably a stupid post but do any of you ever have your dogs getting in the way of you shooting all the time??  I have 2 boxers that love to to just sit in front of my target when im shooting..lol  Ill throw a rock in the woods to get them away from the target but that only lasts a few min  and then i hurry up and fling as many as i can before the two rug rats come back and I always shoot like crap against the clock and under pressure..lol   But hey I still love my pups..

Don't exactly have that problem, my lab sits by my side while i shoot and he almost gets more excited while im shooting in the backyard then when he's putting up birds, and thats saying something...

Have a schnauzer that likes to run up to the target and smell the arrow I just shot. I have to wait until he has come back to my side. It's good distraction practice.

One of my heelers stands in front of me barking, she likes to chase sticks, frisbees, balls, pretty much anything including arrows.

My Springer (Jake) and Jack Russel (Angus) always love to come shoot with me. But they have learned to stay until we go collect our arrows. Took a while, but it is much safer and I don't have too hurry shots. Enjoy Don

well my springer (Taz) sits on the Deck while i am shooting then as soon as i have shot runs up to the target sniffs the arrow ( as if to say yup that was a good one Dad but where's the rabbit)

My Lab tries to pull the arrows, so I leave her in the house when I shoot.

Richard

My little guys like to check the arrows in the target too- they are better left in the house, where they watch thru the window

I moved my targets into an easement behind our back fence to keep them from helping.

My older dog has become gun shy so Now when I go to the club to shoot I leave him home. Last time he ran for the next country and was found a mile down the road at someones house.

Mine do the same thing and ignore me when I call them to me.  I finally got to the point that I won't let them out with me when I'm shooting.

My GSD likes the range, lots of free hands to pet him.

I tell Jake "Get behind" and he does (stands behind me or off to one side).  I only had to reenforce that twice when he was a pup and I was shooting my flintlock.  Caught on right quick, he did.

Nope my dog learned early on to just sit and watch me. He loves everything "birdy", so flying things with feathers attached really drove him wild. he pulled one arrow from my target and broke it when he was young and we had a talk about that, so now he just sits and watches!

Same problem with my cats.............they like to bite feathers and sit in front of the target, so in the house they go, where they lay by the window keeping an eye on me.

The dogs are fine .. it's the two stupid Goats that think they are dogs that give me fits, and never ever leave shafts in the bail and go in the house for a sec. dummies will snap em nibbling on the fletches.

No, my dog doesnt pay too much atension  to me when shooting,the real problem are my cats!!

Mine just thinks he owns the target:



Brian

My lab Belle freaks when I walk out of the door with bow and arrows in hand. It is all she can do to heel and stay, until the first arrow is loosed. Off to the target for a quick sniff then on to other more important matters.

The way I have done it in the past(duck hunting dogs) is to draw a line or use a piece of wood on the ground.Take a short piece of rope or leash and a tent stake, and short leash them make the leash long enough for them to sit comfortably and stake it to the ground.Every time you shoot do that and stand in front of them and tell them to stay and do your shooting.after a while they will go and sit at that line or board you have when you want to shoot.Try and shoot from that point so they get the point thats what they need to do when you go to shoot.