Because at Blue Sky Retrievers we accept only a limited number of dogs I can devote more time and adapt to each dogs individual training needs.  We also have access to over five hundred acres of training grounds.

Training does not stop with the dogs. I am a firm believer in adding to my skill and knowledge base. Training with nationally recognized trainers and attending training seminars allows me to continually  add to my knowledge and skills.

Retriever training 6 months and older:

Basic obiedience training

Here                                                    Sit                                                   Whistle sit

Remote sit                                         Quite                                              Left side heeling

Front finish                                       Truck loading                            Right side heeling (optional)

Intro to dog stand                            Holding blind manners          Here drills

Intro to guns

Intro to guns in the field              Shooting over the dog              Marking off the gun

Intro to birds

Dead                                                  Flyers                                            Cripples

Force fetch

Hold                                                  Hold while walking                  Heel, sit - Hold

Fetch on table                                Fetch on ground                       Walking fetch

Pile fetch

E collar conditioning

Re-inforce 0biedience                 Hold                                                Hold while walking

Fetch on ground                           Pile fetch

Land Marking

Walking singles                          Multiple gunners                         Hidden gunners

Ditches and roads                      Barriers

Casting

Right back                                    Left back                                         Right over

Left over

Marking through decoys

Land  and water with ducks and geese decoys

Intro to multiples on land

Handler thrown doubles        Taught doubles                            Cold doubles

Dbls. of hidden guns                Taught triples                                Cold triples

Triples with hidden guns

Intro to multiples on water

Handler thrown doubles        Taught doubles                            Cold doubles

Dbls. of hidden guns                Taught triples                                Cold triples

 Triples with hidden guns

Advancing - casting

"T" work

Right back                                    Left Back                                         Whistle stop on the way back

Wistle stop on  the way             Right over                                       Left over

"TT" work

Right back                                    Left Back                                         Whistle stop on the way back

Wistle stop on  the way            Right over                                       Left over

Right angle back                        Left angle back

Lining drills

Diversions

Swim-by

Right back                                    Left Back                                       Wistle stop on  the way         

Right over                                    Left over                                        Swim-by

Pattern blinds - 3 legs

Introducing the 3 legs            Blinds influenced by marks

Cold blinds

Single blinds                               Blinds with marks                      Multiple blinds

Blinds with influences

Influences

Gunners                                       Dry shots                                       Holding blinds

Decoys                                          Gunners                                         Bird crates

Poison birds                                 Topography                                 Wind

Honoring

On lead                                         Off lead

Marking concepts

Multiples                                     Delayed marks                          Punch marks
Check down                                Pinching marks


*** The sequence of the above change base on the dogs need and training opertunities ***

  Here are some of the results 

Part of our service is handler training.  A race car is only as good as it's driver, your dog is only as good as it's trainer and handler.

(Iowa Fall Grand 2008)