re: Sound Sensitive Dog

Dogs are not born gunshy. They learn to be gunshy. That being said the unteaching of this behavior is very time consuming. I have done this with a couple dogs with varied success. As said earlier you can introduce noise while eating(this is the best way to teach a dog to accept gun fire) or if the dog is not a big eater find something to distract the dogs attention and introduce noise from afar. If the dog has not been brought in the field too much he may not associate place with noise and you have a better chance. If your dog has talent it can be done. The want to retrieve needs to be there