Training
Offering individualized courses, all the trainings are adapted to each dog and owner. Some suites themselves with traditional methods and others require more adapted approches. Every retriever is a potential hunting dog, but they have to learn the fine strings of their jobs !
Hobson and Tessy have been trained for different hunts (goose, canadian goose, duck). Both had the instinct to do brilliantly so their learning was easy. I even discovered of them a fine nose to seek out wild rabbits !
First training steps were to acquire basic obedience notions. Once well learned, hunting basics have been taught, including gun proofing. Step by step, they came into the fields (and lakes) and did proper simulations. Considering the size of both dogs, I specialized them a bit. As Hobson is a strong built and large dog, he is strong enough for duck retrieving (2kg) up to big canadian goose retrieving (8kg). On her side, Tessy is smaller but far more agile. So she goes for the duck and partridge. Both are valiant workers, agile and quick !