We are members at a club (twin cities area, north), and in the summer we do training every thursday night with real birds. Let me know if you want contact info! Lots of people with great advice
Yip, back to the drawing board on picking up bird with my girl tonight. I did make a break-through yesterday and got her to enthusiastically retrieve a bumper with part of a wing attached so I think the rest will just be a progression. She does great bringing it back to heal position and holding .... but really doesn't like dead animals, but she is going to love them eventually I think.
Hopefully at the private we can address my questions of teaching direction and whistle use, and picking up birds. Both of which I doubt we need for JH level, but I hope to have the next level trained before being done with JH. I have a notion of how to teach those 2 but a more professional opinion is going to be great ... versus me who has seen it taught when I was a kid.
I will keep you posted how it goes. Every year I say we want to get into this ... last year we did join a club and went 3 times - did bumper retrieval water and land, and it went awesomely. But this year we need actually need to start training and progress, hence the private lesson.
We are members at a club (twin cities area, north), and in the summer we do training every thursday night with real birds. Let me know if you want contact info! Lots of people with great advice
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I have found that live and/or fresh birds can change a dog's tune pretty quickly.
I went to a club intro last year that I loved but didn't join because it was Thursday night training day, met some really cool people and my husband found a childhood friend attending (it was funny). I may have to rethink that club (land O lakes hunt retriever club I think), I really liked it .... I do like my new club to, but your club sounds like it will have more guidence to newbies.
You weren't at any intro event early last year where you, probably March or April?
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I'd get a program (book/dvd) to follow if you are wanting to teach casting, blinds, etc. Lardy's program + manuals are really good. Stawski's DVDs are very clear and a little cheaper.
It's all a progression. Force fetch, force to pile, mini T, double T, pattern blinds and eventually you can put it all together for cold blinds. It's all in the foundation, just like in any other sport
Oh, and that's not to say that a private lesson won't be of great value! It's just always good to be able to see the whole process, which those DVDs do for you
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