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For my dog it was a lot of both. Correction then praise. I know when training her to hold an object like a bumper or a bird the only thing that worked was positive reinforcement. I guess you just...

I agree...close the distance and use frozen pigeons or live pigeons...

I literally bought a lab last july that was returned to a breeder last year because the owners thought it too hyper. $1200 dog for $200. one year old. The training has gone just fine. dog has...

I started training my first lab in July. Despite the Internet etc. I went to the library and checked out Richard Wolters "gun dog", "water dog" and "family dog". Even though they're fifty years old...

The hold command is new...but she seems to getting it. I'm going to keep at it. I know ff will fix it but I think that's above my pay grade and being married with tiny kids I'm limited to what the...

I am but an amateur...and perhaps there are holes/gaps on my training. I just want a nice hunting companion and need to fix this pheasant flaw. Im backing up and teaching the hold command all...

I've posted previously that my 1.5 year old lab resisted retrieving pheasants (she gets anything else). I tried a frozen pheasant the other day and she did a little better but not all the way to...

I like the idea of "hunting" with it...thanks.

Just bought a dummy launcher...how do most of you use this in training? Can you launch it 100 yards into water?

My grandfather (this was several decades ago) hunted upland game with a brown spotted dalmatian. Im too young to remember how well the dog did but my uncle says it sort of pointed and then flushed...

I also used a toy cap gun when feeding (its louder inside) and when throwing singles. I then got some poppers and shot those from my 12 gauge at the training field. I guess it depends how sensitive...

Government is a hungry beast. Just the thought of not feeding it enough is making it cry, beg, threaten, and strike out. I once read a biography on Davey crockett. Congress wanted to pay a late...

200 in Los angeles

See the vet but any time my dogs throwup its usually the food...something in it just doesn't agree...i also had a Dalmatian that just threw up a lot. Is your dogs projectile vomiting or pumping his...

Isn't there a law that prohibits people from owning a destructive device like a 50 caliber rifle, machine gun, or a canon?

Welcome...i was inyour shoes last year...the best training tool I used was Richard Wolters series of books; game dog, water dog,...they're fifty years old but just go chapter by chapter...i found...

I was just out for chukar yesterday. An hour in my dog flushed out a mule deer. I've never seen my dog so excited...she was jumping out of her skin...If not for her collar she would have chased...

I live in the burbs...even the crack of a starting pistol will bring the police. I used a kids cap gun with the little plastic percussion cap rings. I fired it for retrieves and before I fed her....

Does the dog actually get on the barge? They should include video of a jet taking off and landing. This is all in good humor btw.

I'm always wary of people with accents selling me things. I think we Americans add extra credibility to someone with an English/irish lilt to their voice and that can get us in trouble. I'm sure...

I obviously see a lot of pics here but that is one great looking dog. I have a red golden in addition to the lab pictured. He turns 14 next year. I love Golden's but the burrs in the fur are all...

I have pet insurance for injuries only. Cuts, ligaments, snakebites, broken bones, swallowing plastic army men etc. It's pretty cheap.

Hey...all I want is my dog to quarter, flush, and retrieve...which she does. I have an English lab which is stocky and creamy in color...but she hunts like a demon. There's a blind man at my...

Our society is sick and septic. these mass shootings are simply the visible pox on the surface. We've become a faithless self absorbed society which keeps producing these ahole 20 year olds who...

I have great red golden I found at the pound...he was fifty bucks and loves water retrieving. The down side is that his long fur picks up every burr and sticky they brush up against and sometimes I...