Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Teaching Your Dog to “Load Up” Encouragement and conditioning rather than force and frustration. That’s a philosophy key to most aspects [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Selecting a Properly Sized Crate The tendency of many duck dog owners is to buy a crate for a puppy that [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Introducing Your Dog to Water It’s a myth that all retrievers naturally love the water. In fact, the worst thing you [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Introducing Your Dog to Decoys The ultimate goal for your duck dog is to build laser focus on the downed birds [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Hunting the Older Dog When you look at the duck dog in the blind next to you, it’s the memories you [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Dealing with Heat Cycles For owners of female duck dogs, heat cycles are a fact of life. When it happens, your [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: How Often to Train It would be nice if there was a schedule that told you how to train every retriever. [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: How Long to Train Like children, puppies have short attention spans. If you train beyond the limits of its ability to [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Exercise Advice Performance athletes require carefully planned exercise programs to maintain physique and achieve peak performance at just the right time. [...]

Duck Dog Tip of the Week: Signs of Proper Weight The overall weight and body condition of your dog are the most important signs of good health [...]