Forming The Retrieve: Avoiding The Bad, Encouraging The Good

Forming the retrieve is something that we work on from the very start with our retrievers. We talk a lot about hold conditioning, but that does not come into play until the dog is mature. We recently had a question come in about a guy who turned his dog off of retrieving, and was wondering how to reverse his mistakes. In this episode, we discuss the ways we encourage and perfect a forming the retrieve, and how to avoid bad habits associated with retrieving.

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