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    Got my new pup 'Ace' on Thursday. She is a black lab and I am going to train her to be a duck dog.
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    Wish you and Ace many many truly memorable days together, @Sean...
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    Awesome looking pup you have there @Sean

    You two are about to embark on some life long adventures that's for sure.

    Thanks for posting the video too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sean View Post
    Got my new pup 'Ace' on Thursday. She is a black lab and I am going to train her to be a duck dog.
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    So if you want her to be a duck dog Sean, you better get her some webbed feet.
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    Sean I start her in that pond your old man had the eel in the other week, nice and shallow!
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    Adventure awaits!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rushy View Post
    So if you want her to be a duck dog Sean, you better get her some webbed feet.
    Labradors do have webbed feet Rushy and I'm not taking the piss, it is a fact.
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    True that!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Labradors do have webbed feet Rushy and I'm not taking the piss, it is a fact.
    That's my education for today.....
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    Getting there, she did it better this morning. Any training tips?
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    Good work, @Sean...I like how you are making her wait for her meals...they learn "manners" with such training...go Ace!!
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    Good start. Eebees is right about them learning manners this way, but they the real training for this and control will come much later.

    Try not to repeat ANY command. Give the one sound you want the pup to associate with the action and then correct, or if still teaching the meaning... push the back end down so it does it after being told once. This is not just so you don't always have to repeat commands but it stops the pup from being confused. Because they don;t speak any language and only associating sounds with an action it is crucial, to get a well trained compliant dog to be very resolute in this.

    Let me explain a bit more why this is so important. The dog doesn't learn a word.. just a sound associated with an action. "Sit" or "Sit, Sit", or "Sit, Sit, Sit" is three different sounds to a dog, because there is only a sound, not a word. To expand on that I use a single tone whistle with my adult dogs. There are only three commands. One peep is "stop", two peeps is "turn and hunt the other way" and three peeps is "Come here". The whistle only makes one tone and sound and yet it means something totally different depending on how many times it hears it. In the human world repeating a word reinforces it, in the canine world it confuses.
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