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This site is dedicated to my current Yellow Lab "HOMER"
Sunrise in the blind. Nothing is more enjoyable than sharing it with your friends and a well trained Retriever. This blog is a journal of how I trained my first gun dog "Homer". I am in no way a professional trainer, but in less than a year, using only 4 DVD's , I trained Homer. Homer will do blind retrieves well over 150 yards away and he's just over 1 year old. Training him has built an inseparable bond between us. Homer is strictly a hunting retriever we do not compete in field trials. Training your own dog is a ton of fun, you will save thousands of dollars, and the bond created is 100 times better than sending him to a "PRO". Below is a picture of me and Homer with his first Mallard. I hope this site will help you decide to train your own gun dog.
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Having fun with your dog is one of the most important aspects to gun dog training. The more fun you have, the more your dog will enjoy training as well. Keep your training sessions simple and short, if you feel yourself getting frustrated stop the lesson.. Sometimes it takes several consecutive days for a dog […]
Training Homer has been very rewarding for both me and him. We have a very tight bond and work together like a team. Having a dog training “SYSTEM”: has made the training much more fun and productive.
The combination of 4 videos and 1 book by Joseph Middleton is the system I use. Richard Wolters book’s […]
It’s been a while since my last post. Homer is doing great, we still train about twice a week to keep him sharp and in shape. I get tons of complements about Homers training every time we’re out, the videos I used are the reason Homer is doing so good. In a previous […]