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First Cold Game Retrieve of a Duck with our Boy Harvey the Labrador – Gundog Training, Preston, Lancashire.

gundog training with harvey the labrador cold game duck retrieve

Harvey is 2 year old in October.  5 months ago his training was limited to what he wanted to do.  He’d chase game, be allowed to play with retrieves resulting in hard mouthing.  He was a loving dog but with very little obedience and no Gundog Training.

Over the last 5 months I’ve spend time re focusing his basic obedience training whilst adding Gundog Training into his programme.  Today whilst out on a cold game training day / photography event I introduced Harvey to his 1st duck retrieve.  He’s previously retrieved a pigeon but only a few steps away.  Today we worked in thick cover sending all the dogs a distance to the retrieves where they had to hunt and take direction with whistle commands.  As you can see from the picture he did me proud delivering the duck to hand with no messing.