[skeet]

10 weeks at a grand a week is ridiculous. I did some field trial shooting and saw dogs like that...who still failed. If they want to hunt right it usually goes pretty easy even for someone who really doesn't know too much about training. I found in the past that training a dog was a two way street. The owner usually learned about as much as the dog. Unless they were dumber than the dog...which happens to be true quite often.

Way back in the mid 80's I had a hunting party out for a total of 7 times. There was one guy that had a beautiful lab he had paid 5 grand for fully trained. Every day on the first retrieve that dog would go wild..running across the field like an idiot. The guy that owned him would wait till he was a bit over a 100 yds out and blast that darn dog in the tail end(with trap loads). Worked like a charm...EVERY time. From that point the darn dog was like a robot. Did every thing they told him to. They were from New Bern NC. Don't remember the dogs real name but they called him and he answered to the name A**hole!