I'd say every blind is different as far as dog hides. In reality if you have a steady dog that doesn't want to bounce around while working birds, no hide is needed. I personally have a piece of wire that folds over the top of my dog walk with grass zip tied to it, not to hide the dog but more so to break up the blind. When you have a dog that can handle, it doesn't have to see every bird hit the water but then again it has to be able to leave the bird on the water that it did see and handle to the ones you want it to if that is the appropriate order to get the birds say due to a cripple or strong current/wind pushing the one that the dog didn't mark. This can be said for many different scenarios however. I'm assuming the OP's dog here is not handling because it does not sound like the dog was with a trainer very long and obviously the trainer lacked in the marking scenarios when it comes to various places for "release". If the dog doesn't seem to get it after a few hunts, have someone on the far end of the blind throw a few dead birds after the hunt from that side of the blind so the dog does not see him and fire a few rounds with your barrel in that direction and have the dog retrieve it. Repeat until it clicks, other wise rebuild the whole set up at the house and repeat. Again though experience should do the trick, just leave the bag of rocks at the house, it's a hard habit to break.
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