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Duck Dog Training

Posted on 9/24/14 at 9:51 am
Posted by GEAUXLPOST
Member since Sep 2012
1330 posts
Posted on 9/24/14 at 9:51 am
I want to give my dog a shot at seeing if she can learn to be a duck dog. She is a Lab Mix, likely with American Pitbull Terrier. She has a strong drive to work and retrieve. High drive to please, and she has very good conditioning. She has basic obedience down (Sit, Down, heal, Stay). She is right under 8 months old. I have no clue how she would do as a bird retriever. I have never training or had a Duck Dog before, but I would at least like to give her a shot and see how well she does. I wont lose anything by putting in time training her, if it doesn't work out, I will just have a more obedient pet.

My question is, where do I start? Can anyone recommend a training book, video, website that kind of walks you through? I don't want to get too far ahead of where she needs to be and would like to talk my time with her and give her a shot next year for duck season.

I loved working with my Catahoula mix, who is now a beast at disc/Frisbee and is a phenomenally obedient dog. I hope I can whip this one into being a bird dog.

Thanks guys.
Posted by Redfish2010
Member since Jul 2007
15168 posts
Posted on 9/24/14 at 9:58 am to
Is she gun shy?
Posted by WHODAT514
Walker, La
Member since Mar 2012
1870 posts
Posted on 9/24/14 at 10:30 am to
Buy the book water dog, I did the training with my dog and he is a damn good duck dog for being trained by me. Good luck
Posted by GEAUXLPOST
Member since Sep 2012
1330 posts
Posted on 9/24/14 at 11:21 am to
Not sure. She seems to be somewhat skittish , around new things, but as soon as she receives positive reinforcement, she is over it. So if she is gunshy, I think she would get past it pretty quick with training.
Posted by GEAUXLPOST
Member since Sep 2012
1330 posts
Posted on 9/24/14 at 11:55 am to
Bailey thanks you.
Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
24932 posts
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:49 pm to
I used water dog and this one: Robert Milner "Back to Basics"
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