Puppy socializing and training is a very important time for your young retrievers mental stimulation and growth. It is not serious training but it does prepare your pup for that time. Unsocialized dogs are a trainers nightmare. “I didn’t want to do anything wrong so I didn’t do anything with this pup,” are some of the worst words to hear as a trainer.
If you have unique circumstances that prevent you from properly raising and socializing your pup, we often can find people and families willing to do so.
We absolutely recommend the DVD ‘Training a Retriever Puppy with Bill Hillmann,’ for those working with their own pup. Go to WWW.HAWKEYEMEDIA.NET for more info.
Dynamic Retrievers offers a very thorough and balanced program for young field trial dogs including solid basics, transition, and early advanced training. Marking mechanics and precision while keeping a great attitude is important to us. Helping owners with training and handling skills is a part of the dog’s time here as well. We work well with numerous other professionals who handle dogs in the derby, qualifying, and all-age stakes. Tim Springer and Dynamic Retrievers no longer offers field trial handling as a service to clients. Instead, we dedicate the travel time and time at trials to the proper development of these talented young dogs.
Young dog development for those wanting a well-trained hunting dog and family companion has been and continues to be an important part of the training going on at Dynamic Retrievers. We ourselves are hunters and understand the importance of having a well behaved yet stylish retriever afield. We generally take in young dogs at around 6 months of age, and like owners to commit to a minimum of three months of training. This allows us to take the time and do things right, without unnecessarily rushing or pushing a dog too much. Solid basics, although not very exciting, are very important to a young hunting dog’s entire career. Your dog will learn obedience, formal hold and fetch training, bird and gun training, water and land marks, upland hunting, and exposure to decoys and other hunting scenarios.
