In this video I’m training Willow our black Labrador bitch puppy to begin to sit for a thrown tennis ball and a thrown puppy dummy.

As you will see the sit and eye contact come straight away and this has built up from her expecting to sit as an activation for her food.

There are 2 videos for Willow as we were running out of video space so had to do a second to recap what you should be looking to do and expect from your young puppies.

What i am hoping to do with these videos is to show you how to over come everyday issues when starting out, issues that we never really see in our everyday gundog demo’s and dvd’s.

Things do go wrong and dogs need to be molded in different ways.

My advice to everyone is don’t rush, take your time, these pups are coming up to 15 weeks old and I’m only just starting to throw retrieves for them and start lead training. There’s no point putting lots of pressure on a puppy that’s not old enough to take it!

Willow play retrieving.

Recap for training.

These are the follow up videos five days on from the first videos of the 2 black labrador sisters starting out there life as working gundogs.

As you will see in these videos the labradors have become alot more focused on myself and what is needed to activate there food being given to them.

This video is to try and show how we introduce our puppies into training.

We don’t start until the puppies are 9 – 10 weeks of age. Up till this point all we do is shake their food bowl to encourage them to be very excited around feeding time.

When we are ready to start we are looking at gaining eye contact from a young age, if a dog isn’t looking at you how do you know they are listening. We also Don’t give them any command to sit,. When you first do this you shake the bowl to gain there interest then when they are interested you stand still no words no movement. They will lose interest and continue to move, this is normal.

When they loose interest you shake the bowl again to regain interest. Eventually your puppy will put there bum on the floor for a split second you then put their food down with praise “Good girl or boy”. Within days you will go to feed them and there bum will be glued to the floor and there eye’s will not leave you.

This is the first test or your patience as a owner – handler. This could take up to 10 minutes the first time you do it depending on your dog and surroundings. But done right could give you a lifetime of good eye contact.

This is a short video of ourselves doing some gundog training with Broc our black and white springer spaniel dog. Broc was born 26/12/2011 so still very young but seems to be coming on strong at the moment!!

We have been sent a link to a toller puppy video from a puppy sired by Bomber our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever stud dog.

Its not very often we get sent video or see videos of pet tollers on YouTube, so it was a breath of fresh air! Long may it continue and if your brave enough send us yours!!

Our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever litter are now 5 weeks old and starting to get about really well, take a look!

Summer group training for steadiness ready for picking up with more than one dog this coming winter. Includes three Labrador’s, two Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever’s, one Golden Retriever and one Cocker Spaniel.

Casper is a Chocolate Labrador and a new addition to our kennels, he has been with us about four weeks and has begun his new life as a working gundog. As you will see he’s really good and really enjoys it!

As the Toller puppies reach 5 weeks of age, they are starting to get very active and cause as much trouble as possible!