Hi Bob. New subscriber here. It's been over 30 years since I raised and trained my labs. Back then, I read all the books...Free, Wolters, Milner, etc. and probably used some techniques from all the books with my dogs. Like everything else, I know the science and methods have changed since that time. I am looking to get another pup in the near future and train him as if he will be my hunting partner, even though I'll probably never hunt waterfowl like I did back in the day. In Richard Wolters book, he was adamant about taking the pup from its mother on the 49th day and cited scientific literature to back up his claim. What is your opinion on the best time to separate a pup from his mother? Is this one of the things that may have changed from the time I had my last dogs? Thanks.
There comes a distance with our dog where he has the temerity to ignore the stop whistle. We work towards it and then after about 200m does his own thing so we’ve stopped working at that distance. Remote collars not tolerated in the UK. Interested to see how you build this. Will try and copy everything apart from e-collar.
Hey , So my dog fully understands recall , understands ecollar pressure and the potential of a ecollar. Do you have any tips if my dogs istraction is so high that when offleash he engages with a high istraction and blows through the ecollar and ignores recall. Do I bump up the setting/correction on the ecollar?
Hi Bob. New subscriber here. It's been over 30 years since I raised and trained my labs. Back then, I read all the books...Free, Wolters, Milner, etc. and probably used some techniques from all the books with my dogs. Like everything else, I know the science and methods have changed since that time. I am looking to get another pup in the near future and train him as if he will be my hunting partner, even though I'll probably never hunt waterfowl like I did back in the day. In Richard Wolters book, he was adamant about taking the pup from its mother on the 49th day and cited scientific literature to back up his claim. What is your opinion on the best time to separate a pup from his mother? Is this one of the things that may have changed from the time I had my last dogs? Thanks.
There comes a distance with our dog where he has the temerity to ignore the stop whistle. We work towards it and then after about 200m does his own thing so we’ve stopped working at that distance. Remote collars not tolerated in the UK. Interested to see how you build this. Will try and copy everything apart from e-collar.
where can I find the whistles you are using?
what whistle are you using?
Hey , So my dog fully understands recall , understands ecollar pressure and the potential of a ecollar. Do you have any tips if my dogs istraction is so high that when offleash he engages with a high istraction and blows through the ecollar and ignores recall. Do I bump up the setting/correction on the ecollar?