English Labrador Retriever | Purchasing & Training Considerations

to do these types of things and then when you're doing your retrieval with dogs that have these environmental sensitivities, that's where a lot of times they don't want to come back in a straight line or If there's some kind of physical issue between them and what they're retrieving, it's They'll give up a little bit just because they think it's hard, you know, if I feel like I'm in the brush pile, huh. the dog just can't find a good line, so I'll move down and find an easier spot. Leg down on this side. You can see how we built it where it slopes up.

Come on, you can do it. and he's really working, I really appreciate him, so when he gets here I'll tell him I appreciate him, people a lot of times will say, you know, hey, Stoney, like, uh, why don't you pet them and praise them? At the end of the work week there are two lines, one is an attack line, the pat on the back and the other line is a 100 bonus line, which one are you going to enter first? Okay, well, this dog here, this type of dog that they really like. food, so it's like a thousand dollar bonus line, oh come on Cole, you can do it, come on, great, you can do it great.

Now I'm going to back up a little more. This is the same concept as before. opening space the mistake I would make here is to move back and get closer to the dog as I close the space he has less incentive or less motivation it's okay to try to get to where I am so I have to come this way and then move away and it opens space very nice good dog come on, you can do it come on, you can do it find a way very nice friend very nice oh my God, that's the smartest guy I've ever seen in my life oh, that's a very good dog, that's a good dog, oh my God, Cole is a big boy, very nice, oh you were smart, very nice, good boy, now we'll go back, we'll go back on our way now he got under on the way down, but I'm going to clear up a little bit of a way to make it a little easier The good thing about brush piles is that they are infinitely reconfigurable oh come on Cole you can do it look at that goat goat, very nice, you're a very smart boy, okay cameraman.

I'm going to continue down this path now, what we'll try to do is try to get maybe one or two more short little bits and then we'll head back to the kennel. You know, around here, what is, uh, something. What you will notice when you watch a lot of my videos is that our trainees are interspersed throughout the day, we do a little here, a little there, a lot, sometimes not much, sometimes, that's okay, because that's how life goes real. You know, some days with your dog. Go out and spend all day doing fun things with them and some days you only have a few minutes here, that's okay, so we try to make sure they understand that as soon as they start getting here, let's go. to go out, we go to work a little, work will lead us to fun things, but sometimes, like in my own life, the fun things are interrupted by more work and some days there is more work than others, the same goes for the dog okay so even though the charcoal is a little tired here I feel like we can probably end up with one or two good retrieves if I can drag him away from that deer poop so I'm just going to stay up here in the shade and cast the retrieve . element down, come on, come on, very nice, very good, and we'll get one more.

Hello, look, he's a little distracted, what a good boy, what a good boy, you're very kind, okay, now you have some tips if you want to do it. a little bit of adventure and recovery with an English-style Labrador Retriever, that's fine, you know, but again, if recovery and adventure is very important to you, that's fine, then get a dog that's been bred to be very conscientious. Patterned and very athletic and having an extreme amount of drive. Well, I get asked that question all the time, Stoney, what kind of lab should I have? He looks like he's seven weeks, 16 months, right, and I think using this video does a really good job of showing you what these two different dogs are like, you know. just get closer to life, it's okay, this one here wants to be a part of everything you do and even at seven weeks old she is full of urine and vinegar, you know she wants to be everywhere doing everything big dogs do Okay, Cole, he's awesome, but he's a little bit better for laying in the kennel and having people come in and pet him and love him and maybe kick him a ball or something because what he really likes to do is he I'd kick the ball or throw it to him and then he'd go and grab it like he'd run and get it and he'd bring it back a little bit and he'd just drop it and look at them and I swear they look at them like peasants.

I mean I really think they come here and are like peasants to entertain me you know maybe that's not true maybe it's just my projection but that's how I feel sometimes very nice but they're pretty easy to manipulate oh Oh my goodness, if you understand the specifics of the type, okay? you start early and you design your

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regimen appropriately and you tie your recovery into inductive recovery because they have a tremendous food drive okay guys I'll see you all next week come on dogs you're a good boy Cole come on . We have to go back to the pound, come on Andy, come on, very cute dog.