Your dog is doing exactly what it was bred and trained to do. When issues arise in the field, the problem rarely lies with the dog—it almost always comes down to handler-induced confusion or skipping foundational training steps.
Foundational training is just as much for the handler as it is for the dog. Working out problems during dedicated training sessions is always far more effective than trying to fix them while actively hunting.
“Know what you are doing, limit your mistakes, learn from them, and clean things up before confusion ruins a perfectly good bird dog.”
AZPointingDog, LLC
Perfectly Confused