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The Covid-19 Pandemic has severely restricted our group training, cancelled events and limited travel. This article describes many things that you can still do alone to improve your training and advance your working retriever.
The latest video from YBSmedia documents many lessons from the 2019 Farmer/Lardy REMATCH Symposium
The NEW Dewey Gunner is a remote controlled retiring and un-retiring Gunner. This review describes it's key features.
The Farmer/Lardy Symposium was a landmark retriever training event in 2017 captured on film. Read this review of the 11 hour DVD, highly recommended for the retriever trainer.
The new AIRFLOW bumper has a revolutionary design with several advantages in material characteristics. This review describes results of extensive field testing.
A discussion of the many factors to consider when deciding where to place the birds in a field trial or hunt test. Good bird placement is the key to a good trial.
These Training Principles and Guidelines of Mike Lardy and Dennis Voigt were derived from Total…
Required reading for all Derby and Junior Field trial judges. Much food for thought here in a discussion that challenges what you often see in the minor stakes on the weekend.
Bill Hillmann has two DVDs on his Fundamentals training program. They are similar to a Basics level with some early Transition work. The first was Land Fundamentals and here Dennis Voigt reviews Part 2 on water fundamentals
Bill Hillmann's 1st edition Training a Retriever Puppy has been widely received as an excellent method for early puppy training. The 2nd edition reviewed here by Dennis Voigt adds much new material and features several different pups. Contents of the 2 DVD are listed.
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