329 sats \ 11 replies \ @Enemy_of_the_state OP 5 Feb \ parent \ on: French Brittany doing his job Dogs_And_Cats
Yes, 5 years old Epagnuel Breton, goes everywhere with me except fiat mining!
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Does the retrieving come naturally, or does it involve a lot of training?
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Exactly, short to keep them wanting more. Thanks for the interaction, only my second day here on SN!
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Yeah definitely proof of work when the you and the dog are working as a team. One of my girls wants to be a dog trainer, and she already impresses me with the tricks she’s taught them.
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It’s a bit of both. I grew up with Golden retrievers and they typically are very natural, almost obsessive about it. This is my first dog of my own, and I guess it’s typical of Brittany’s that they don’t get super excited about retrieving…so we trained a lot as a puppy.
Still the practices are short, and have to be challenging or he loses interest in retrieving dummies (maybe 3 or 4 retrieves per session max.). Live birds and he is excited and never gets bored, he will hunt all day and do a dozen or more retrieves.
A Golden retriever will play “fetch” with dummies until he collapses with exhaustion.
I was lucky to have a lull in my work schedule while he was young, as that is the best time to train, between 8-16 weeks old. Just lays the foundation, rewires the brain and turns them into a learning sponge for the rest of their lives. Then just treated every interaction as a training/learning opportunity.