She is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 - 12 weeks now. She is a HORSE. Anyway, ive been working with her pretty much daily. She is retreiving pretty nicely and seems to really like water. Every time it rains she is outside playing. She has also done really well about house breaking.
I'd love to send her off to have her trained but its not going to happen. My reminds me this was suppose to be our daughters' dog. She doesnt care if I train her but she doesnt want to pay for training.... wifes.... sheesh.
Anyway, I need to ramp up her training. I say "Mark" and throw the toy or canvas bag. She pays attention but never looks up to see where its going to land. She waits for it to hit. I need to get her looking up but cant figure out how to do it. My wife's midget Corgi pup looks up every time.... go figure. The Golden does really well until she gets tired or until I soak the canvis in duck scent. If she has the scented canvis bag she wants to lay on it and chew on it until I offer her a treat to retreive. If she gets tired she runs past me and wants to just play with it until I hollar a few times and then she retreives.
Im thinking about buying a training collar and a video. Any suggestions? Good online resources? etc... Ive trained all of our dogs to sit, stay, heel, etc but ive never trained a retreiver. I really think she may end up being a moderate to decent duck dog but have no foundation for training a retreiver...
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