[Camcil]

How important do you find “stick men” to be to your retriever’s training? As I am patiently awaiting the arrival of our lab puppy, I am putting together a plan of action for his training and assembling the training tools that will be necessary. My goal is to have a great waterfowl retriever and family dog that may even accompany me in the occasional (maybe once a year or so) pheasant hunt down the line. I have been consuming a lot of content to include Freddy King, Ethan and Kat, and Tom Dokken – but I hadn’t seen any mention of stick men until I started watching Evan Graham’s Smartworks.

How important are these tools in regards to retriever training and what is the underlying purpose they serve? I’m not sure if I will ever do any tests, but if I do it would certainly be hunt tests.

 

[Camcil]

Stick men serve a purpose in training concepts.

Thanks for the DIY suggestions. Is the purpose served by the stick men just another type of distraction? I'm probably thinking too much into it, but this really seems to be skipped by in Smartworks and just talks about patterns to use, etc. (unless of course I just missed it, which it certainly possible).