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From: thr1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tom Ritter)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: gundog training
Keywords: gundog
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.063946.12022@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 11:39:46 GMT
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In a previous article someone talked about having trouble
with their lab dropping dummies.  I had much the same 
kind of trouble when I taught my lab to retreive...

Solution:
My suggestion is to start off with short retrieves and 
stand RIGHT ON the bank.   That way the pup gets back
to you before having a chance to stop, shake, drop the
dummy etc...

That stopping at the edge is a bad habit.  It gives the 
pup time to screw up... I work close to the edge and 
gradually move back a few feet...

AND DON'T LET HIM SHAKE!  It took me quite awhile to
correct that mistake of mine...  It makes teaching 
to shake on command alot easier as well...

Tom Ritter
thr1@ra.msstate.edu
PS
	Now that she's trained I just need to hunt her
more often... :-(