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Imperial Dog Training
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2023
A series of dog training videos to assist you in training your own dog at home. The videos cover a variety of work including general pet dog obedience, trick training and gundog work.
Gundog exercises- Water retrieve, crossing a body of water
A lot of the time we get into the habit of always throwing retrieves onto the water for our dogs. This type of exercise is to help work on your dog marking retrieves well and also taking the shortest, most direct route to the retrieve.
This is an exercise you may find in a working test. The dog has to mark the dummy thrown on the other side of the pond, swim over the pond, pick the dummy and then return the same way it went.
This is a challenging exercise as most dogs will be tempted to try and find a way around the pond so consider this when trying out this exercise and try to use areas where it is easier for the dog to return across the water rather than going round.
Practice getting your delivery out of water where the dog brings the dummy into you rather than stopping to shake and dropping the dummy.
Start up-close to the water first and gradually build up distance as your delivery becomes more and more reliable.
You can teach your dog to shake on command after taking the retrieve from them by saying the word shake as they do it naturally, over time they then pattern this as a commanded behavior which you and request when required.
This is an exercise you may find in a working test. The dog has to mark the dummy thrown on the other side of the pond, swim over the pond, pick the dummy and then return the same way it went.
This is a challenging exercise as most dogs will be tempted to try and find a way around the pond so consider this when trying out this exercise and try to use areas where it is easier for the dog to return across the water rather than going round.
Practice getting your delivery out of water where the dog brings the dummy into you rather than stopping to shake and dropping the dummy.
Start up-close to the water first and gradually build up distance as your delivery becomes more and more reliable.
You can teach your dog to shake on command after taking the retrieve from them by saying the word shake as they do it naturally, over time they then pattern this as a commanded behavior which you and request when required.
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Intermediate gundog training exercise- Push backs & whistle proofing
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These 3 exercise are useful to test your dog is responsive to your whistle commands and tests your verbal release commands. Exercise 1- Walk your dog our to a point and sit them up, throw a dummy out a good distance behind them allowing them to "mark" the dummy. Leave your dog where they are and you walk back to the start point. Raise your arm and push your dog back onto the dummy to retrieve u...
Beginner gundog exercise- teaching direction casting
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When you are at the stage where your dog has a good drive to retrieve and some steadiness to a dummy being placed or thrown you can start to introduce direction casting. If you do this along a hedge, fence or wall it can help you to keep your likes straight to ensure the dog is learning to run out at a 90* angle. When starting out perfect casting in one direction before moving on to the other d...
Beginner gundog training- using a place-board
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Using a place-board in gundog training can be incredibly useful with younger dogs or busy dogs. Don't rush or force the dog onto the placeboard, build their confidence stepping onto it and walking over it before asking for them to sit happily on there. "Place"- once the dog is happy on the placeboard introduce the place command, place should mean sit on the board. Build up to sending your dog t...
4 steps to teach gundog stop whistle
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Step 1 *Start by introducing this whistle in your heelwork. *While doing your heelwork, stop walking blow the whistle and ask the dog to sit. Once the dog has sat reward them. *Repeat this over and over again until the dog begins to sit off the whistle without you having to give them the sit command. *Once the dog is sitting just from the sit whistle without a voice command to reinforce it you ...
Beginner Gundog training exercise for steadiness- "round the clock"
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Working on steadiness- Round the clock exercise * This exercise is to work on steadiness for gundogs but is useful for any dog to work on their stays and impulse control. * Start with your dog in a sit/stay in the center of your clock, the handler moves to 6 o’clock. * Start by dropping a dummy at your feet, if the dog does not move pick up the dummy and reward the dog. Reinforce the stay if ne...
Beginner gundog exercise to improve marking
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This exercise is to help your dog develop its marking abilities and learn to mark further away and run out confidently. The aim of the exercise is for the dog to mark the dummy and run out straight and confident to the area of the dummy without hunting its way up. Start by working out what distance your dog is able to confidently mark and run out to a dummy without hunting their way up. Once yo...
Dog Trick Training for beginners- Paws up
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*Start with a step like object, you can also do this on the stairs or a step at home. Make sure your object is fully secure and won’t slip when the dog puts their paws on it. *Begin by rewarding any interaction with the step, even if it is just sniffing it. Build to then encouraging your dog to put their feet on the step by luring them onto it, never place your dog on the item as then they won’...
Dog Trick Training for beginners- twist & spin
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Teaching twist and spin *An easy trick which your dog will learn really quickly, good one of the kids to do as well. *Get your dogs interest with a treat and lure them in a full circle back to the start position giving the relevant command and then reward. *You can use a different command for the different directions or the same for both and use hand signals to get the alternative direction. *O...
3 Main whistles for retriever breeds
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The three main whistles we teach to the retriever breeds are: * Recall whistle- 3 pips * Stop/sit whistle- 1 longer blow * Hunt whistle- alternating short and long blows Recall whistle is used to get your dog to come back to you. Sit/stop whistle can be used to handle your dog when it is out in the field, or leave your dog in a sit whist you are away from them. Hunt whistle is used to get your ...
3 Gundog retrieve exercises for beginners
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Seen/marked retrieve *This is the first retrieve you start with for the puppies and young dogs. When starting out you’re just wanting the dog to be keen to retrieve the dummy and not expecting any steadiness yet. *Throw or toss the dummy a sensible distance from you depending on what stage your dog is up to. Send the dog when you are ready using your voice command. As the name suggests the dog ...
Sonnet- 18 month old Labrador, training in gundog work
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Sonnet is now 18 months old, she is training to compete in gundog working tests and trials. She is still a young dog and training is always ongoing. At this stage she has a clear understanding of heelwork, stays and recall. All training is still positive, reward based training whether it be through physical touch or treats. Rewards are dependent on what drives your dog, it could be treats, voic...
Meet the trainers....
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Ally- Labrador breeder and founder of Imperial Dog Training. Owned and trainer Labrador's for a number of years. Main focus of training is gundog work incorporating general obedience with this. Trained a number of dogs over the years and now moving into gundog competition work with her current dogs. Has a number of dogs at working level out picking up on local shoots, as well as a few dogs now ...
Meet the dogs...
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There will be a number of dogs shown in our training vidoes, all of different ages and stages in their training journeys. Jive- Puppy, starting training from the very beginning Cookie- 6 months old, active and busy brain which isn't always easy to train Jive- 9 month old, Calm personality but struggles with focus, ready to start harder training exercises Sonnet- 18 months old, training to be a ...
Couple points, thats not a gun dog and its all praised with treats!!!!
Couple of points. This is a gundog breed which shows your lack of knowledge. There is also nothing wrong with treat rewards if that suits your dog for praise, the thinking that it isn’t ok to reward a gundog with treats is outdated and nonsense. Our dogs still work for us when there is no treats on offer too. Also there is no reason someone couldn’t do gundog work with a dog that isn’t a gundog (which this dog is) Dog training is for all, whether you want to work your dog, complete in tests & trials or just enjoy training. There is no need for this sort of negative input.
Do you not find repeating commands so much dilutes them? If they know the command, surely you shouldn’t have to say it a dozen times. 😕
Absolutely. The aim is to be able to say as little as possible, however sometimes the reinforcement is needed to start with to make sure the exercise is successful. Our aim is to only ever have to give the command once, but the dogs we use to demo with are at various stages of their training and we do what is required in the circumstances.
Is he a Duck Tolling retriever ?
He certainly is!
Thank you this will help me with my 15 month old lad , keep the videos coming please
Hello - just found your channel and so happy to see a toller in UK gun dog training videos. That never happens! Where are you based? I’ve just got mine stopping on the whistle on the way out to a retrieve so I can cast in another direction. Never thought we’d get there. Would love to meet others doing the same. Thanks for showcasing them and your training!
We are based in Warrington, Cheshire. Stop whistle away whistle is for certain the most tricky to nail but once you have it there is so many fun exercises you can do!!
Hi Guys, I really like the content of your videos and the way you demonstrate them. Sometimes the sound quality is difficult to hear because of the distance you are from the camera, can you get some different microphones please? Keep up the great work. 👏👏
Thanks Ross. This one was filmed pre microphones which we now have so any new content should be better quality sound 😊
Excellent video. I have my lab pup (11 months old now) pretty reliably stopping to a whistle blast and looking to me, but never included the sit part. I have to use hand signals or voice (if close enough for him too hear). 2 pips on the whistle for a great recall. Got to learn how to move onto the next whistle based commands now.
The International Emergency Signal of Distress is- three of anything, whistles, blasts, fires etc. I use four or five toots of the whistle for recall.
Absolutely brilliant stuff xx
Your videos are fantastic. Could you do one on drive building exercises? My dog needs a kick start and I am nit sure how to do this thanks
Yes we will look to do this! I struggled with drive with the dog shown in this video. Best bit of advice to get started it don’t worry about your steadiness while building drive, and don’t do too many retrieves in a session. Stick to a max of 4 in a day
I have golden retriever bitch who generally works quite well other than she has a habit of standing off 6 feet on returning from a retrieve (won’t return to heel) and chews Everything she picks up! Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 🙏 D.
The moment she starts to mouth I would try to correct it with a firm “no” or “ah-ah”. If you don’t use a placeboard in training this may be helpful as it gives the dog a target to return to (teach independently to retrieve work first) or stick to small spaces where the dog does not have the option to not return. Delivery is the one of the trickiest things to crack and there is a number of different approaches we would take depending on the dog.
Saying No/Nah don’t chew etc., has no effect! Is there anything I can get her to retrieve that she won’t want to chew/taste texture? Thanks
The idea is to keep the area of the fall the same but you move the distance with the dog. The dog becomes more reliant on the position of the dummy thrower than purely marking itself. The progression of this to blinds will take longer with the dog asking questions from the fact that you are sending the dog on its name. The trainer using white dummies are effectively training a potential anxiety problem in the dog.
Different approaches for different people. This way has worked great for all our dogs and we train with field trial champs who use this method.
Loved the video, can I ask how old the bitch was here?
Hi, she is 18 months old in in the video
That isn’t training to do marks,the dog is marking the dummy thrower.
Appreciate your point but you can see the dog loses the mark at a certain distance regardless of where the thrower is. We do play with the position of the thrower but for the purposes of the video we are trying to show the basics of the exercise for beginner dogs.
Nice.
Great video, nicely broken down into the different stages & well presented. 👏👏👏👏
Thank you for the video.
Being an American ive become very interested in the British way of training gun dogs. It’s a quiet different program. I like it. What I don’t like is all the puppy mill kennels here selling “British” Labradors with FTch 5 generations back in their pedigrees for 5k. I definitely see an enormous difference in style and temperament in British dogs though. Hopefully one day I can get on a plane and see it first hand.
I own a NSDTR and have looked at the American and Canadian training types and tests and it's fascinating how training can vary through the world. It's also lovely to see how these retrieving breeds can apply themselves to work in a manner of different ways. The Labradors especially being very trainable and versatile dogs! Unfortunately puppy mills in any county exploit any avenue they can which is a shame for those who get taken advantage of :( Abi, Imperial Dog Training
Check out the dogbonehunter here on TH-cam, he used similar training techniques and is based in the US.
@@Imperialdogtraining I have a NSDTR, have found it interesting how they are different to labs and some people cannot get there head around that. Are you planning on any videos with your Toller??
Absolutely, very different dogs with different motivations and drives to labs. We will do some videos with him as well as we go along! There is some of him on the channel covering trick training, but he does also do gundog work and we will film some of this too.