Pointing Dog Training Tips with Dave Hughes

Pointing dog training tips are revealed by trainer Dave Hughes during interview with Bird Dogs Afield host Paul Fuller

Pointing Dog Training, Part 6, Reliable Retrieving

Head trainer at Professional Gun Dogs, Travis Ruff, demonstrates a fully trained gun dog performing a retrieve. 

Bird Dog Training, Part 5, Honoring a Brace Mate's Point

Head trainer at Professional Gun Dogs, Travis Ruff, demonstrates how to teach a young pointing dog to honor a brace mates's point. 

Bird Dog Training, Part 4, Teaching "Whoa"

Head trainer at Professional Gun Dogs, Travis Ruff, demonstrates the proper teaching of the "whoa" command to pointing dogs.

Bird Dog Training, Part 3, Handling and Introduction to Gunfire

Head trainer of Professional Gun Dogs, Travis Ruff, demonstrates the proper way to introduce young dogs to gunfire. 

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Bird Dog Training, Part 2, Teaching the "Here" command

Travis Ruff, head trainer at Professional Gun Dogs, demonstrates the proper teaching of the "Here" command.

Bird dog training, Part 1, Introduction to birds

Travis Ruff, head trainer at Professional Gun Dogs, demonstrates how to properly introduce young pointing dogs to birds.

Introduction To The Gun

Young Gordon Setter is introduced to the gun.

Yard Training - Pointing Dog

Young Gordon Setter gets yard training from professional bird dog trainer Steve Ries. Excellent tips for training young pointing dogs.

Puppy Training Motivational Obedience , Heel, sit, stand

Puppy Training Motivational Obedience , Heel, sit, stand

Teach your Puppy To Sit Stay - Maximize Training opportunities

 One of the early fundamental steps in training your dog.  

Clicker Training a Bird Dog Retrieve Part 1 Shaping and Chaining The Basic Retrieve

Basics of Clicker Training your Bird Dog

Watch Step by Step Instructions over and over on how to shape, then back chain together all the behaviors needed to have a solid retrieve to hand for bird dogs and gun dogs. All positive. 

Tips for training given as you work through the process. Practice each step until your dog can do it correctly 8 out of 10 times in a row. When you add the next criteria, your dog should be successful 50% of the time. If she's not, you need to simplify something for her so she can be.

You can use tugging to increase desire for the bumper between sessions if you use a different toy, not the bumper. 

This method works for natural retrieving breeds as well as non-natural retrievers such as Jessie. It allows you to retrain any part of the retrieve chain that your dog is not proficient with.

Dog Training - Vibrate condition to "whoa"

In this training video Chad works with Hank a young German Shorthair. He shows how to use DT's 1820 vibrate feature to vibrate condition a young puppy to the "whoa" behavior. He uses positive reinforcement pigeons to help accomplish this.

      

Dog Training - Vibrate condition to a place board

In this video we use the DT 1820's vibrate feature to vibrate condition this young puppy Hank to a place board. This process like all our training starts using all positive reinforcement and clickers.

      

Gun Dog Training whoa Part 4 - Video

Gun dog training "whoa" command with our german shorthaired pointer. This is the conclusion of our four session whoa series

Gun Dog Training Whoa Part 3 - Video

Willow Creek Kennels is training our bird dog, german shorthaired pointer, Jazz the "whoa" command. This is her third session. She is really getting the idea and the possitive reinforcement is paying off.    

Gun Dog Training Whoa Part 2 - Video

German shorthaired pointer, Jazz is learning "whoa". This is her Second session.

Gun Dog Training Whoa Part 1 - Video

Gun dog training at Willow Creek Kennels. Watch as we teach our German Shorthaired Pointer, Jazz, how to "whoa" . These videos are in real time from start to finish. Jazz learns the command "whoa" in front of your eyes!

Using pigeons as positive reinforcement - introducing the "Whoa" command

Using pigeons as positive reinforcement we start training Rooster to be steady to wing. We have found this method of training is easy on young dogs, and makes introducing the "Whoa" command fun for the dog.

Clicker Training With Your New Puppy - Video

The basics of Clicker training a puppy.