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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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I’ve been out at a private club, duck hunting a few times this year and got a REAL good demonstration on how NOT to use an electronic collar. I watched a “Professional” trainer burn a confused dog so badly the dog completely shut down. This person was asking his dog to do something […]
When most people think of an electronic training collar they think “Punishment”. In hunting dog training, this could not be further from the truth. In fact using an electronic collar to punish a gun dog will ruin him.
The collar is simply a means of applying “pressure” on a dog to perform a command quickly When […]