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Preparing Your Dog For Blind Retrieves

You know, whether you're hunting waterfowl or upland birds, there's going to be a time when you hit a bird that your dog just doesn't see. Now in order to get those birds, you're going to need to teach your dog how to do blind retrieve. And that's what we're going to show you how to do today.

How To Get A Puppy To Stop Biting

Here we are with our adorable puppy getting a great view of I think one of the top problems I help people with with their puppies. And that would be biting. He's pretty assertively, playfully, not aggressively biting on my hand. This is something I like to nip in the butt right away.

An Easy Way To Stop Your Puppy From Jumping

Well, here's our other real common problem that we have with our puppies. And that would be jumping. And while he's only nine weeks old and he's really cute, and honestly it doesn't really hurt me or bother me when he jumps on me at this age, but anytime I let them get away with a behavior, at this age, it really just continues to snowball and stay with them through the rest of their lives into adolescence and into adulthood.

Introducing Your Dog To Gunfire

I'm George Hickox. We're in North Dakota, out in the prairies at our summer training ground. Today we're going to talk about introducing a puppy to the gun.

How To Plant Birds For Your Pointing Dog

Hi I'm George Hickox. I'm talking to you from our summer training grounds in North Dakota. Today, we're going to talk about planting a bird for pointing breeds. When I plant a bird for a planting breed, I like to have a piece of orange survey tape down so I know exactly where the bird is.

Introducing Your Pointing Dog To Backing

Hello, I'm George Hickox. We're in North Dakota at my summer training grounds. Today we're going to talk about backing. When we teach backing, we have a dog on a check cord, we bring him in and then we're going to pop up a remote backer. When the backer comes up, the dog sees it, we're going to command whoa. When he stops, we're then going to launch a bird. By launching a bird, the dog always expects there's always going to be a bird and that's what's going to give him style when he backs. So let me get a dog and I'll show you how we're going to do it.

The Fly-Away Drill For Pointing Dogs

Hi, I'm George Hickox. We're here in the prairies of North Dakota, my summer training grounds. Today we're going to talk about scent drills, point drills, getting your dog to hold point.

Handling Your Pups From A Four Wheeler

Hi I'm George Hickox. We're out on our grounds in North Dakota and I'm going to talk about getting a dog to handle.

The Four Curses Of Dog Training

What a good girl. Hi, I'm George Hickox. We're here in our summer training grounds in North Dakota. Today I'd like to talk about the four curses, the things that you as a trainer should never do.

Teaching Steady To Wing And Shot

Hi, I'm George Hickox. We're here in North Dakota on our training grounds. Today we're going to talk about teaching a dog to be steady to wing and shot. The benchmarks before I start is I want a completed fly away drills. I want a completed my restrained chase drills.