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I am having a problem with my yellow lab pissing on everything in the back yard i think i no why he is doing this is because my neighbor dog is pissing through the privacy fence he is a german shepard that never stops barking. i am just wondering if there is anything i can do to get him to stop piss...

I have the smart fetch 2 disc

yeah i have your program along with dokkens and george. i should probably just follow through with your program and get him fully FF. do you also think that will take care of these problems that have just started. and what is a correction for when he does do these things.

I went out of town for 3 weeks on buissness and my parents took care of my 11 month old labrador . I started training agian monday with some steady and lining drills and OB. Well he did great on OB and was good on steady but on his retrive he would come back to me with the bumper and roll over on hi...

The boys and I went out this weekend and i took the pup with us he got in on the action got his first goose water retrive plus another 2 and 8 ducks to go with it. i am super happy in the hunting machine he has become the first goose retrive i almost called him off cause he was still alive but zink ...

thanks d seeker he has been running with some championship GSP on phesant and quial and it really has filled him out nice.

tom dokkens and smart works FF

yes i have a program but it does not have any corrections for whining it does for the inching forward which i correct him for any time he does it which is not often luckily

here is a pic of him

THE STEADY PROBLEM IS HE GETS SO EXCHITED THAT HE EDGES FORWARD JUST A LITTLE BIT WHICH IS NOT REALLY MY CONCERN CAUSE I NO HOW TO CORRECT HIM FROM THERE. BUT THE WHINING PART IS THE MAIN ISSUE SO I GUESS IT IS A WHINING PROBLEM MORE THEN ANYTHING. I DO ALL MY THROWS MYSELF. I WAS THINKING ABOUT TAK...

Hey i was just wondering my lab is 10 months now and is very obident with all the commands and is decently steady i go out to the farm and lean up agianst a round bail shoot blow the duck call throw bumpers and birds and he stays steady for me with out whining. This morning we hunted a creek edge an...

okay so once i get done with his force fetching i can start on some of those drills looks like to even help with assuring him to hold i appreciate it.

I was just wondering how everyone went about getting there lab to sit on one whistle blow i can off leash and on leash sit him to the whistle when he is around me like on my side or out in front of me but if he is further out when i blow once he comes back to me then sits. i was just wondering if th...

okay i did not think that blowing the whistle on the flush would be holding steady but in a way it is i guess. if i blow the whistle he sits only problem is he turns and looks for my signal so that could be difficult. but i imagine with a bird up he will focus on the bird but i just need to get some...

He is steady to shot in the blind and like dove hunting basically steady to a place command he is not aloud to leave place/ blind without my command.but i have never got to shoot a bird that he has flushed so i dont no what his reaction would be . i do not plan on hunt testing him with upland birds ...

I have a 9 month old lab i got some quail over the weekend so we went out and had a training day. only problem is the quail would not bust out they would jump 3 feet in the air flapping there wings and land right next to my dog and he would pick them up bring them to my hand. i had 13 quail and not ...

All the training i have been doing has paid off. Duck season opened up this weekend in ohio so i took the young pup before it starts to get to cold to see if i could get some action for him we ended up shooting three woodies and he retrived them all and brought them straight back to me through the b...

I took him out for a walk yesterday after Doing some Ob Training my buddies were in the back of the farm hunting well they had 5 birds lost in a thick thicket Zink went In and hunted up all 5 lost birds for them he did amazing and he brought them back to me with no problem first bird he brought it o...

I am going to get the smart fetch for the FF training but according to alot people that should not start till he is about 8 months old correct me if im wrong please. So at this time my main concern is getting all his commands down to a T. But I still like to take him out to the field for experience ...

I have a question my 5 1/2 month old lab has been doing really good with dove hunting and retrieving but I have still been doing a lot of obedience training Come,Heel,Sit,Stay,Down,Blind-place, so yesterday I did the 15 min of training in the back yard and decided take him out to the farm see if we ...

I took my lab out dove hunting again the other day he has been doing really good has successfully retrieved over 70 birds. I was sitting out there for a good hour before I shot my first bird and we had a lot of black birds flying around and he was getting all excited which for 5 months is understand...

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IT WaS opening day dove and zinks first hunt ever he retrivedover 30 birds for the field and found multiple lost birds over all I feel like he did amazing with all the gun fire in the field he stayed pretty steady for me and was super aggressive on getting in the thick brush hunting dead. Was an ama...

Okay I am going to put a phone call into Bud on Monday and touch base with him thanks again for the help Evan

No I contacted the Miami valley Labrador retriever club and sent an email to Debbie Ewen

Hey just wondering if anyone is in the Cincinnati ohio area I tried to contact the local lab club but its been a week and still no contact so was just looking for someone to run the pup with and see what a true gun dog is like I have great property if anyone is interested in running there dog or pup...

Thanks for all of the advice I do have a couple training programs I guess I kind of worded it wrong when we train he comes when I call. but when I let him out in the morning to go potty when its time to come in he is very hesitant my guess is probably because he knows I have to go to work and he is ...

I have him a E coller but I feel like he is to young for me to turn it on I only have him wear it when we go out to train to play but I do not turn it on so is it okay for me to start turning it on and using the E coller?

I was just wondering if anyone would have some advice my Lab does not come back every time when I call him now if he is retrieving he comes every time but recently out in the yard when I call he does not come I have tried doing a couple training sessions with a long lead and pulling him in when I ca...

He is very obedient to me even around a lot of distractions like other dogs that walk with us at times I still can blow the whistle and he will stop most the time where he is (still working on this ) and look at me then if I tell him come he comes and heels to my side I have been working on obedienc...

Had a great night of introduction to a real quail he did awesome I planted it in the finger and worked him down the tall grass finger and he flushed it up had a little pause( when he really got the sent )to him it before he flushed. Had a a ribbon attached two its leg so when it started going down I...

Here is a picture of the puppy turns 15 weeks old in 5 days

Thanks for all the advise I was not planning on doing any sort of forced fetch right now I just wanted to know what age people start the forced fetch. I do all his obedience training lots of praising lots of treats I usually do obedience in the morning before I leave for work for about 15 minutes. T...

Hey everyone I am new to this form and would like to thank the board for accepting my application. I am new to the dog field just got a yellow Labrador he just turned 14 weeks old. I have just trained him based of stuff I have read on forums and watched Utube videos. I believe he is doing very well ...