First Month
The first Month we do lots of leash work and development drills. We start teaching your dog here, heal and place to a platform. We are also doing walking singles and puppy marks to develop your dog's retrieving desire and marking ability. Also, at this time depending on the time of year we will do water intro and swimming. Alot of this is assessing your dog's desire level and ability. This is the month of teaching.
Second Month
The second month we are starting the conditioned retrieve. This teaches your dog to hold and to pick up birds and deliver to hand. It's a pretty intense process and this is also what sets up the momentum for advanced training. We start with a dumbbell, go to a small bumper and then a frozen bird. We are still doing obedience on leash and doing marks/ Walking single and place training.
Third Month
The third month we start putting a lot of the things we have taught your dog all together. We start collar conditioning. We have taught all these commands, and we start the transition to enforcing these already taught commands with the e-collar. The process of starting to steady the dog and ask it to come to heal and deliver begins. We are also doing marks, Place training, gunshot acclimation.
Fourth Month
The fourth month we are doing field marks, land and water marks with birds. Through decoys. Retrieving remote from a platform and teaching to retrieve from a ground blind. Hunting scenarios and teaching the owner to maintain and handle their dog. Increasing the difficulty of marks through cover and extending them further and further.
Fifth Month
In the fifth month we are meeting with the owner and teaching them basic commands and how to enforce taught commands. Heel, Hear, Sit, and Place to retrieve from a remote location and be steady. We are teaching you the tools to run and maintain your dog. Leave it fetch drill and Collar conditioning. This will require you to schedule time to come and spend time with us. We also recommend coming to our training days when we have them.
