New puppy habit....

[TriggerHappy]

So I have my 8 month old pup, just about ready to take out into the fields this fall for some duck / goose hunts.
She is good with everything , the gun shots, retreiving the bumpers and leaving the decoys alone. So I started working the goose calls around her just to get her use to it and she has developed a habit of a low howl with her head straight in the air. As I call she finds the need to put her head up and do a howl. It pretty funny at the house but not something I want her to do in the duck blind.
Any ideas why she is doing this or how do I stop it?

Its pretty funny and we are trying to get it on film, so I'll post a vid if I can.

[wilks kennels]

it may seem funny now but it won`t latter on in the dogs training .no means no .see dogs don`t have bad habits people put bad habits into there dogs .by not training them properly .a dog only know four things when you bring it home . how to eat how to poop how to sleep and how to chew these are thing it can do on it`s own with out anyones help .anything this dog know or learns in the rest off it`s life you as the owner has taught it meaning if you don`t repremand the dog for doing somthing wrong you give your dog the right to keep doing what it is doing . training starts from day one you as the dogs owner have to teach this dog to react the way you want it to and the longer you let this go the harder it is for your dog to understand why your are getting on it for the noise now when for the past few weeks you thought it was cute .the sad part about it is that the dog usualy pays for it in the end because of a handlers mistake .grab the dog by the muzzle and put only enough pressure by squeezing the dogs muzzle telling no noise with one hand and holding it by it`s collar with the other hand to keep control of the dog . and have someone blow the call .and no means no not well she better still noisey but better no! she is only better when she is totaly quiet .and you make sure if your going to hunt geese with a young dog . which i think is nuts but !you make sure first your dog has been forced fetcht properly and the bird head are all down never send a young dog on a cripple you need a good and well seasoned hunting dog for that job and anyone that hunts geese will tell you that . and using a young dog like that your going to get into a fetch and a hold problem because the dog is to young and it`s body hasn`t developed enough to handle large birds .muscle and bone structure .to take a dog of that age out to the blind if your in an area you can do that to teach the dog to sit and be steady and no noise great idea but to try and retrieve geese your going to create more problems then i think you want to cure in the future .but thats just my opion . i would give the dog one more year a whole lot more training and you will enjoy many years to come hunting over your dog . good luck .so hunt smart hunt with a trained retriever . going back to count the geese on the pond

[2labs]

What Rick said if you let this continue it will be along hard battle to solve the problem if you solve it good for you and run out a buy a lottery ticket, noise is one thing that will haunt you trust me I know it will become a maintance issue for the rest of the dogs life. Good luck and enjoy your pup 2labs