100% PARVO & DISEASE FREE AREAS TILL PUPS ARE 100% FULLY VACCINATED! Again, every single day we’re going out late in the evening to wear our pups out and ready them for sleep. New environment and a couple of fun retrieves are always part of these...
PLACE STAND IS ONLY INCHES HIGH. NO HIGHER FOR PUPS. NEVER OVERSTRESS A PUP’S JOINTS AND LIGAMENTS. This video shows Spanky at 8 weeks of age clearly understanding place, recall and being conditioned to recall thru place training. However, don’t expect it...
PARVO & DISEASE FREE AREAS ONLY! At 8 weeks of age our pups are now being introduced to swimming water. Water and Air temps when combined must equal more than 120 degrees before I’ll let pups swim. 30 second at most in temps under 140. Longer periods of...
Every day we try our best to get our pup into a new environment. After a bit of roaming around we’ll toss 2 or 3 retrieves at most. New areas can cause a pup to lose focus on retrieves and that’s why we try to go to new areas daily. The more new areas the...
ALL PLATFORMS MUST BE ONLY INCHES OFF THE GROUND! NO stress on young pup’s joints and ligaments. We have started place training using treats a wee bit and conditioning the return to place after a retrieve. However, I do NOT like mixing treats with retrieves at...
Staking our pups out is extremely important!!! A pup being staked out is learning the lessons of being connected to the lead and that they must sit and watch whatever you might be doing. Here of course, pups are being staked out to listen to the sounds of training and...
