I took Sophie out for a second group lesson this weekend to get more input from the group and get help moving her along in training. Overall the review was good. Joe felt like I was being appropriate in moving her along slowly in terms of yardwork and she's all about retrieving in terms of fieldwork. We gave her 6 marks over the course of the few hours that I was there in between her and the other dogs working. There were a couple other labs as well as a couple goldens working on Saturday. He felt like we can give her a little pressure in terms of using the pinch collar, but we have to be careful not to over-correct. Today we did some yardwork in the field behind the house and then gave her a few marks with Dawn being my gunner.
I love the fact that she's only four months old and she gets locked in when we're throwing marks. When she hears the training pistol she's looking for something in the air and when somethings is in the air she's off like a shot. It took no time at all for her to get excited about "the game". She loves retrieving the bumpers, not so much giving them up.
Saturday afternoon she helped me clean up the closet and bag my duck decoys in the more protective bags I recently got after they were backordered for what seemed like eternity.
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