Foundation Seminar with Master Trainer Rick Smith

"A novice handler wants to work on intermediate training.

An intermediate handler wants to work on advanced training.

An advanced handler works on the basics."

A foundation gives you a solid base to build upon and is the first formal step in molding your pup into a good bird dog. In the simplest form, a bird dog needs to know three behaviors; go with you, come to you, and stand still. We will show you how to have your dog walk calmly beside you (the onset of having your dog go with you in the field), introduce your dog to birds, develop points of contact for cues, work your dog on a check cord including pointing and backing exercises… and much more. Key training tools at this stage are the Wonder Lead, check cord and whoa post. This is the beginning of teaching your dog the fundamentals that every bird…