Goose Creek Retrievers, LLC

Moose came to me after his owner started hold conditioning and force fetch and hit a few hurdles when trying to get Moose to understand how to turn off pressure through compliance. This is day two with light collar pressure on the table.

Found a dry spot. Some of the young crew running there first true cold blinds.

Drill Day Running a 3 pole with the bigger dogs and TEACHING it to some of the transition dogs while Sydney is running marks with the younger crew.

Out here slingin’ fowl

Voiceover of how this blind worked out with Jade.

Two blinds with Harley - she flinched in the wrong direction and I stopped her before letting her actually commit to the wrong decision, which she actually corrected in moment I was already blowing the whistle. It happens that fast handling these dogs.

Client asked me one time, “does he do the dead bird backs?” Yeah… yeah, he does.

The Dog Days of Summer. All our Master National dogs are either qualified or have one pass left to qualify, so our focus now reels back in to yard work, drills and getting these younger dogs bumpin!

Day 1 working on a water pile - leading into a water T with Moose.

I have this red male pup available for someone interested in training in the future. He’s not going to be available as just a puppy, he’s only available to someone interested in continuing his training. He loves the water, loves live birds, rides in the truck box fine, has traveled several states, clean in his crate, sleeps through the night. PM for info. You won’t respond in the comments and this business platform will not let me pm you first.

Yesterday we had a young dog who needed a “few-ish” extra motivational bumpers thrown trying to get them out into the pond. I took the opportunity to clean up said bumpers with one of the transition dogs who is currently running land pattern blinds and just now in water T. I wanted to “test out” something I’d been working on with him and gave him a bigger angle cast, asking for more change of direction (he tends to want to dig straight back), he took the angle, granted he scalloped the mess out of it 😂, he still took the cast, be it briefly. This one of my favorite parts of training more advanced dogs; when all the pieces start to fit together.

Koda stretching out on some longer singles. He’s just finishing up force fetch and is from our HRCH Boomer MH x Roxy SH litter last fall.

This young pup is just coming out of force fetch, being handled by someone he just met today and just recently started running gunner thrown marks. When I sent the video to his owner, he asked if this was his dog?? Said he hasn’t ever seen him run that fast for anything! Bringing out the best in every pup we can!

Youngins

“Stand-alone Singles” - a drill you can do alone with your dog and no more equipment than a bumper two. I decided to train this afternoon at the completion of the Master test and ran these marks and 3 blinds through this same field.

Mack really putting the work in with pup pup Tate!!! I keep saying it and I ain’t gonna stop anytime soon - y’all put some time in when they’re babies and you can really mold a nice dog. The days of “let them be puppies, the trainer will do it,” are long gone! We do the heavy lifting, y’all just do a little site prep 😉

Jet!!!!! I’ve had Jet for two months now and when he got here he wasn’t crazy driven to retrieve, he then struggled with force fetch and understanding pressure and hasn’t been even remotely crazy about getting in the water. Not now, baby!!! This is the stuff that makes my day!

Aaron and Woody getting in some reps before Woody starts his formal training. Can’t beat it when you guys put the time in with your pups at a young age!

Abby running 1 of 5 “cold” white stake blinds today. This blind is 135 yards. We use white stakes heavily when transitioning dogs to cold blinds, as well as, confided building tools to increase distances on blinds as dogs mature.

Jet running 1 of 5 “cold” white stake blinds today. This blind is 135 yards. We use white stakes heavily when transitioning dogs to cold blinds, as well as, confided building tools to increase distances on blinds as dogs mature.