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Retriever Training Tips: You Can’t Fix Stupid (And I Don’t Mean the Dog)

For as perfect as we want our dogs to be – and for as perfect as we think we are – we all have our moments of “brilliance” when it comes to dog training. For me, that moment happened last week.

While throwing retrieves for Beau, I managed to find one of the only trees in an open field and firmly planted a $29.00 Dokken Dummy 30 feet off the ground.

Quick Training Tip: Don’t Do This.

The dog wasn’t impressed. Neither was I.

You can’t fix stupid, but hopefully one of these days I’ll learn how to control it.

What’s your most boneheaded dog training moment?

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5 Responses to “Retriever Training Tips: You Can’t Fix Stupid (And I Don’t Mean the Dog)”

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  1. Ben says:
    July 2, 2011 at 9:56 am

    I feel your pain. I’ve thrown a few bumpers that get stuck in the tree’s this year. Two bumpers are currently stuck on one branch. *sigh*

  2. shawn k says:
    July 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    OMG …..THATS WAY FUNNY ….IVE MISSED A FEW BIRDS WHILE HUNTING AND MY OLDEST DOG PARKER TURNED AND LOOKED AT MOM LIKE WTH WAS THAT ABOUT ….DOGS ARE WAY FUNNY AND LOVE EVERY MINUTE !

  3. Al Allen says:
    July 2, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Was out training my labs using my good duck calls when it hit me, I had to go use the rest room and bad! I took the calls off for a reason to this day I don’t know why. Put my calls on the back of the stool an went for a sit down, was about to finish up when I hear this sound and look down! It didn’t make my day when I had to go fishing! Training was OVER for the day!

  4. Norm B. says:
    July 3, 2011 at 7:06 am

    When I got my current GSP, my wife gave her some stuffed animals.She carried these all over the house. When retreiving training started, she refused to p/u the training dummy.My wife suggested that I tell her to fetch her “Baby”. Well I did and it worked like a charm and she has been retreving pheasants and quail ever since !

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