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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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One of the most important things I’ve learned from training Homer is to keep the sessions short and FUN. One thing I do, that is not stressed in the DVD’s, is FUN BUMPERS. Fun bumper’s are a reward for doing a good job.
Homer learned fun bumpers at around 10-12 weeks old as a […]
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 […]
I’m taking a break from Homers training for a couple posts to talk about what I do to keep him healthy. Homer and I just got back from the Vet, for his yearly vaccinations. Homer gets three “extra” shots every year that our house dog’s don’t need. The first is Lyme disease, the second is […]
I’ve had numerous people ask the question in the headline. Well the simple answer is his dog training techniques WORK!!! For the avid hunter like me, they solve my three biggest problems, lack of time, money and experience. Because of the Wolter’s DVD’s I get a huge amount of compliments about Homer from my hunting […]
Well I have to admit dog training collars are a huge asset if you use them right. They can however be a HUGE problem and cause more problems than they correct if you don’t use them correctly. I’ve seen trainers literally “Lock” a dog up by over use of the collar. The dog […]