In the future I'm going to get a lab and train it to be my duck dog. I've had labs all my life growing up(we had a choc, black, and yellow all at the same time at one point) and they were all duck dogs. However I was not around when they were trained, my dad worked shift work so a lot of the training was when he was on 2nd and 3rd shift. I was around introducing the pup to water and hearing a gun for the first time. And then once the dog was fully trained and I'd be there for some drills or in the field with the dog but not the inbetween to get them from a pup to a retriever. My dad is giving me a bunch of books including the book "Water Dog".
Is there anything else out there you guys would recommend? I won't be getting a dog in the immediate future but I'm thinking in a couple years.
Is there anything else out there you guys would recommend? I won't be getting a dog in the immediate future but I'm thinking in a couple years.