How to Hunt with Bird Dogs : How to Command a Labrador Retriever to Fetch in the Water
Labrador Retriever Blog | February 11th, 2010
Learn how to hunt with retrievers for duck hunting in thisfree video. Expert: Charlie Labarda Bio: Charlie Labarda is and expert in Trout fishing in Lakes and ponds in Northern Arizona. He always catches the most fish and is going to share with you some of the secrets he uses. Filmmaker: Caleb Labarda
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This guy is a backyard trainer at best. I laugh how he says “I don’t mind him dropping the bird and shake” Does this guy even hunt birds, if you have a viable crippled bird and the dog drops it, it could take off or get back into the water, prolonging the retrieve or even losing the bird if it can get to water and start diving. There are so many things wrong with this. You need to view Pat Nolan or Evan Grahams videos to see what a real trainer and a good dog are supposed to be, not this guy!
First i have to say that it is NOT A PURE BREED LABRADOR. It is probably a GSP X LAB MIX. It was not an water retrieve because the dog wasnt swimming
. All in all bad training with mediocrete dog equals BAD DOG.
get the book , THE WATER DOG , cant go wrong
Whats a good way to starting training with my dog
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master hunter ………..
Haters!
This is some poor handeling teaching this dog some bad habits. If you want your dog to pass hunt test the dog needs to retrieve to hand, line his mark, enter and return on the same line, and not shake until retrieve to hand. No wonder the dog is confused and wears the pants in this relationship, the handler keeps repeating commands rather than make corrections. Not a bad dog, just a bad handler.
everybody stop hating! just bcus he hasnt trained him perfectly dusnt mean hes not a good hunting dog. my grampa takes his pups out hunting whithout any training at all and they eventualy get what they have to do. as long as the duck gets back to you your dog is worthy of hunting
my dog is better trained i only have to tell him things once…..
Dog doesn’t need any training but handler would really need to get some real quiding from real bird dog trainers. That performance at hunting competition = failed
My god, my 1.5 year old gun dog is better trained then that poor thing, and Turks 5 months behind training!
Boy, I sure hope this guy’s not training for trials – fail.
chyeah. haha.
no drive , no delivery to hand….repeat commands multiple times…bwahahaha.
your the master …..NOT
Nice Dog, needs a bit tmore training- im sure[or i hope] if that was a real duck your dog would go a bit faster!
u r the greatest person ever
all labs do that naturaly. mine does, its just a smart dog breed.
i train dogs to hunt and that dog is not ready to hunt, he does not sit on command unless he is told 3 times and he does not take the same route that he took out back in which a dog should do when hunting.
If you are interested, check out pat nolan or mike lardy videos. If you can invest the time, you will have a great dog!
Dogs are like kids, the more you put into them the more you get out of them. My dog just turned 1 year old and is in his forced fetch training phase. He currently does the following:
Comes, sits on vocal and whistle.
Heals on and off lease.
Can be handled to go left, right and back using hand and whistle commands.
Marks his bumpers and can do multiple retrieves not more then 75 yards.
Will stop and sit on whistle and wait for commands.
Not rock solid, but that comes with age and experience
Haha, agreed.
And you must have a nice dog. =)
Did it take a lotta work, training him to do such things?
Nice dog
This may be a good family dog and a backyard hunter. How does he do at multiple retreives? You should not have to tell him to stay constantly. And why are you telling him to sit when he was already sitting? Maybe you were just nervous cause of the camera. I tend to train my dogs to a higher standard. I have a ten month old who can do multiple retrieves and is whistle trained and can be cast. As long as he suits your needs and your happy with him, then I guess he’s alright. Keep working on him.
Well, the dog’s delivery needs still quite a lot of training… Luckily it was just a dummy retrieve – not a strong runner!