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Teaching Your Labrador To Retrieve
from: The Complete DogMutual trust and understanding are required between a hunter and his dog before a satisfactory retrieving companion can be developed. The intelligent Labrador Retriever, brought up as a house pet with the love and understanding of the person who's going to take him hunting, requires a minimum of training in order to accomplish the task. Much of this training can be done in the house and a few minutes a day will usually be enough. Blind retrieves and hand signals can become a game with your dog learning to trust his nose as one of the important by-products.
Introduction to feathers can be accomplished by tying feathers on a dummy or using a pigeon or chicken wing with the feathers intact. Remember that a Labrador should hand you the object retrieved and not drop it on the ground as is allowed with other breeds. This is also one of the requirements for a working certificate for a show dog. One important thing shouldn't be overlooked and that is allowing someone to throw just anything for a dog and not requiring the dog to bring it back and give it to them. Let toys be toys, but certain definite other things should be reserved for training.
If a dog tends to go off with the object you're training with outdoors, it's wise to reduce the available working space so that evading you is reduced. In this circumstance, moving away from the dog may induce following and the training object may be retrieved as the dog passes. His game of keep-away is thus converted to delivering the object for reward of the praise bestowed upon surrender of the object.
For outside work, training involves getting your dog to go far out, which isn't possible in the house. Introducing him to gunfire must also be done outdoors. You can find a training aid called a dummy thrower that's very useful, but test it without your dog the first time as the dummy goes a long way.
For dog owners wishing to use a whistle for signals, one of the product that you can get is the Acme Thunderer. With this type of whistle, you can almost talk as it's possible to make various other sounds. One blast is commonly used for a dog to sit wherever he is, and three blasts to summon the dog to come towards or all the way back to you. The single blast is used also to signal for the dog to pay attention when you plan to use hand signals.
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