Gun Dog Forum

To get a fully trained dog, you basically have to make dog training a daily ritual/habit. Go slow and be patient. Work in small increments: 2 or 4 - 15-20 minute sessions a day. General obedience (recall, sit, down, heel, whoa) is the foundation of all other training (you can't force fetch if the do...

They will learn to live together. My male GWP was raised with a 5 lbs female Chihuahua. They get along just fine. Chihuahua has like seven teeth and will give play bites on the GWP. GWP just takes it and just play bumps her around. Has never shown any aggression. Early on I had to monitor them and o...

I use treats for yard work and behaviors in the house for these commands "Here", "Kennel and "Leave it". Trained these commands with treats as well. Any time the puppy brought me anything at home or on a hike, dead thing, garbage, etc. I gave a "leave it" command and rewarded with a treat and prais...

I'm also in the same situation and am training the dog myself (along with a weekly NAVHDA OB class) and my dog is coming along nicely after a year. I agree with everybody else that 10 minutes of work at the end of the morning walk and 10 minutes at night is fine. This is a process and the dogs take ...

We taught our GWP to sit as part of a basic puppy OB course. He has had no trouble when I started with whoa. I maybe had to lift him into standing position a handful of times before he caught on (I taught whoa on the ground from heel). Dogs are smart. Being in field is a lot different than sitting a...