Gun Dog Forum

You need to find a retriever training club and get a program. That will do the most for you. Sounds like you don't know what you're doing yet. The program and retriever group will benefit you. Unfortunately I don't have many trainers in my area, I've tried to contact my local retriever club without...

I am, she is my first dog I'm training for this. I have already ordered Mike Lardy's books and ecollar DVD. I live in Reno, Nevada and it's very difficult to find trainers (only one I know of) there is one club here but I have not received any response despite the emails. A trainer I can work with i...

I need help and advice to correct a problem I created with my 5 month old lab pup. Since she was younger I used a lot of excitement to get her into the bumper but not enough obedience and now she is obsessed. She has no focus and she jumps on me and is extremely excited, so much so that her training...

I'm new to training retrievers for hunting, heck, I'm new to hunting in general. I worked my 5 month old pup too much on excitement for retrieving and not enough on obedience early on. Now she is uncontrollable with a bumper around, jumping, breaking sit, not even listening to sit or any commands. S...

I've heard of different ways to keep dogs in range, my pup is 5 months and when I take her to the field her nose hits the floor and she takes OFF. Just out of curiosity I let her run and she was so far she was just a yellow dot before she realized I wasn't behind her anymore and ran back like an arr...

Hey there I'm from Nevada and I'm just getting started with hunting and training bird dogs. I have a golden retriever whose business is to be a couch potato and a 5 month lab I'm hoping to train to be a waterfowl and upland hunter. I guess I'm young, 21 years old working for a construction company a...