Episodes
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
In this podcast, we discuss ten casting tips:
Mental Counting
Expectation After Each Whistle Stop
Casting Rotation
Cast Refusals
Whistle Stops
Carry The Cast
Training Versus Hunt Test
Consider Your Whistle
Consider Your Background
Success and Repetition in Casts
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
In this podcast, I list ten mistakes I often see newbies make while trying to train their first puppy. These mistakes include:
Repeating Commands
Giving The Wrong Command
Cheerleading Pup
Ignoring A Problem
Creating A Gunshy Retriever
Not Teaching Pinpoint Marking
Pup Trains The Trainer
Trainer Not Accepting Responsibility For Pups Behavior
Trainer Gets Frustrated With Pup
Not Building Pup
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
In this podcast, we discuss bumpers...canvas or plastic, orange or white or
black & white, and the use of birds for training retrievers.
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Todays podcast is about the retriever trainer getting frustrated and mad at a retriever. Dogs are not resentful creatures, their behavior is often what in there nature. The best trainers never get mad or frustrated, they have learned "walk in the dogs shoes" and try to understand retriever behavior from the dog's perspective.
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
In this podcast we cover 7 checks for good line manners from your truck to the line:
Opening Your Kennel
Waiting in the Holding Blind
Response to Judges/Marshall Talking/Yelling
Leaving The Holding Blind
Will Your Retriever Work With You?
Walking Towards The LIne: Backwards Heeling
Silent Auto-Sit Halfway and Just Behind The Line
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
In this podcast, we outline a checklist of initial line concepts you can teach your dog while training. Concepts such as barriers, no-seeum blinds, remote sends, targeting, and diversions from the line. These concepts are important in running bind retrieves at Master Hunter level and in waterfowl hunting.
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
There are 3 phases to teach your retriever to master cross-wind water blinds:
Lining into the wind
Casting into the wind
Succeeding in a gradient of cross-wind water blinds
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Sometimes the human or trainer's perspective may differ from the dog's perspective.
This can result in problems. In this podcast, we give five examples where the retriever's perspective was very different than the trainer's perspective.
As you get better and better as a trainer you will think more and more from your dog's perspective...
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
A tune-up drill is a series of land or water blinds run on successive days.
Tune-up drills can be useful for at least 4 reasons:
They get your retriever comfortable with multiple blinds
They teach your retriever go straight in a blind corridor.
They are useful to teach your retriever advanced blind concepts.
They help you develop as the handler to be proactive and reactive to keep your dog in a tight blind corridor.
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
In this podcast, we discuss training drills for working on lining with confidence.
As a handler you need to "spot bowl" with your retriever's spine, eyes, and nose perfectly focused on a spot in line with the distant blind destination.
Barriers and no-see-um blinds are setups that your retriever should be exposed to in advanced lining.