Quote Originally Posted by hcmcelroy View Post
Jeff,

We all do things differently I guess. I've been feeding imprints out of a dish with the nest pan on the floor with a dog right beside for decades. I took a few pictures two days ago.

Harry.
I too have been feeding imprints with the dog around for a while. What I haven't done before is intentionally try to set it up so the bird sees the dog as a sibling. I will have the dog tied out next to the food and then bring the hawk in so the hawk thinks it is stealing food from the dog like it would take it from a nestmate. The goal is for the hawk to think it is competing against the dog for food. I want the hawk to think it has to beat the dog to the quarry.