We started Ridge on double marks last week and I can see I have made a few mistakes or handler errors. We have been throwing the doubles using a device called a “Bumper Boy” which is a mechanical thrower. It has a megaphone which makes a duck quack getting their attention and throws a mark [...]
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Training 10-28-10
Took Ridge out to a local pond today. We have been training about 5 days a week with Ridge. Throwing dummies in the pond with a remote throw. Ridge is hitting the water very hard and doing water retrieves of about 60 yards. He swims smoothly, not like a puppy at all. He loves to [...]
Working with Ridge on Retrieving – Using a Remote Throw
Yesterday Connie and I went out to work with Ridge on retrieving in the front yard. This is fairly new to to him to have a remote throw but that is very important. With another person throwing the dummy you may lengthen out your retrieves and it lets the pup know that birds don’t come [...]
Teaching Ridge to sit – Part II
Ridge is now 14 weeks old and I have been working with him on an infrequent basis. today is probably the 6th day of training on sit. As you can see in the video below, Ridge is already doing very well. I have been increasing the time he is required to sit and have been [...]
Ridge’s first pigeon
Yesterday about 8:00 pm we gave Ridge his first pigeon to retrieve. It is a dead and frozen bird. I like to use frozen birds to start out a puppy because I believe a live bird is just too much for a young puppy to handle. Similarly, a freshly killed bird is just too floppy [...]
Ridge’s First Retrieve with remote throw
Today Jim (Beckley) and I went out training and Ridge went along. Jim stood about 30 yards away as the “gunner.” He was set up just like for our older dogs with a duck call and training pistol. He blew the call, shot the gun, and threw Ridge’s paint roller dummy. We were on lawn [...]
