Up till now this little girl has had fun retrieves using bumpers, toys, pigeons and ducks, long walks with the other dogs, lots of learning her name and coming back for a treat. She does not know sit, or down or anything else. Our focus has been on a happy well adjusted retriever.
Last night she went to her first handling class and we worked on attention.
Today I put her on my new training table...a 16 foot long table to train lots of things at my height. A cable runs along so that she can't get off of it and my hands are free to help her.
So we started with sit on the table and I started with a clicker and man did she learn that fast.
I also added food in bowls to the ends of the table and with her sitting in the middle, I can start to teach her casting over. That worked very well. This is something new for me too so it is a bit of an experiment but so far I like it. It will be nice when the time comes to do the force fetch as well.
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